The lives of the English poets: in 2 vol, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pages |
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... seem to have been ambitious ; and " Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to ... seems to be now universally neglected . At the beginning of the civil war , as the Prince passed through Cambridge ...
... seem to have been ambitious ; and " Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to ... seems to be now universally neglected . At the beginning of the civil war , as the Prince passed through Cambridge ...
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... seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow . " It is surely not difficult , in the ...
... seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow . " It is surely not difficult , in the ...
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... seems to have inserted something suppressed in subsequent editions , which was interpreted to denote some relaxation ... seem to have lessened his reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily believe to be undissembled ; a man ...
... seems to have inserted something suppressed in subsequent editions , which was interpreted to denote some relaxation ... seem to have lessened his reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily believe to be undissembled ; a man ...
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... seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained its author no friends among the abettors of usurpation ...
... seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained its author no friends among the abettors of usurpation ...
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... seems to have excited more contempt than pity . These unlucky incidents are brought , maliciously enough , together in some stanzas , written about that time , on the choice of a laureat ; a mode of satire , by which , since it was ...
... seems to have excited more contempt than pity . These unlucky incidents are brought , maliciously enough , together in some stanzas , written about that time , on the choice of a laureat ; a mode of satire , by which , since it was ...
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