Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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... Italy . Aspice quam varifs distringar Lesbia curis , Üror , & heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor ; Sum Nilus , sumque Aetna simul ; restringite flammas O lacrimae , aut lacrimas ebibe flamma meas . One of the severe theologians of that ...
... Italy . Aspice quam varifs distringar Lesbia curis , Üror , & heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor ; Sum Nilus , sumque Aetna simul ; restringite flammas O lacrimae , aut lacrimas ebibe flamma meas . One of the severe theologians of that ...
Page 96
... Italy , which opened thus : Let the Rainbow be the Fiddlestick of the Fiddle of Heaven . It has been already shewn , that the first conception was a tragedy or mystery , not of a narrative , but a dramatick work , which he is supposed ...
... Italy , which opened thus : Let the Rainbow be the Fiddlestick of the Fiddle of Heaven . It has been already shewn , that the first conception was a tragedy or mystery , not of a narrative , but a dramatick work , which he is supposed ...
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... Italy , and amused himself with its antiquities , and particularly with medals , in which he acquired uncommon skill . At the Restoration , with the other friends of monarchy , he came to England , was made captain of the band of ...
... Italy , and amused himself with its antiquities , and particularly with medals , in which he acquired uncommon skill . At the Restoration , with the other friends of monarchy , he came to England , was made captain of the band of ...
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