Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageOctagon Books, 1967 - English poetry |
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Page 117
... effect 2. One experiment , however , remained to be tried : when he found his life near its end he directed the young lord to be called , and when he desired with great tenderness to hear his last injunctions , told him , ' I have sent ...
... effect 2. One experiment , however , remained to be tried : when he found his life near its end he directed the young lord to be called , and when he desired with great tenderness to hear his last injunctions , told him , ' I have sent ...
Page 147
... effects . In Chevy Chase there is not much of either bombast or In the first edition , he would perhaps have been admired ... effect at the time on the demand for Milton's poetry . The ninth edition of Paradise Lost was published in 1711 ...
... effects . In Chevy Chase there is not much of either bombast or In the first edition , he would perhaps have been admired ... effect at the time on the demand for Milton's poetry . The ninth edition of Paradise Lost was published in 1711 ...
Page 374
... effect of virtue , it ought to be reverenced ; if of ill - fortune , to be pitied ; and if of vice , not to be ... effects of resentment than of gratitude : it is not only to many more pleasing to recollect those faults which place ...
... effect of virtue , it ought to be reverenced ; if of ill - fortune , to be pitied ; and if of vice , not to be ... effects of resentment than of gratitude : it is not only to many more pleasing to recollect those faults which place ...
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