Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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Page 69
... honour of being acted by the Earl of Bridgewater's sons and daughter . The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe ; but we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer : -a quo ceu fonte perenni Vatum Pieriis ora ...
... honour of being acted by the Earl of Bridgewater's sons and daughter . The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe ; but we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer : -a quo ceu fonte perenni Vatum Pieriis ora ...
Page 189
... honour to keep that secret , which is already revealed by another ; or possible it should still be a secret , which is known to one of the other sex ? -If you persist to be cruel to yourself for their sakes who deserve it not , it will ...
... honour to keep that secret , which is already revealed by another ; or possible it should still be a secret , which is known to one of the other sex ? -If you persist to be cruel to yourself for their sakes who deserve it not , it will ...
Page 286
... honour ; which his lordship hearing , left the town : and Mr. Charles Dryden could never have the satisfaction of meeting him , though he sought it till his death with the utmost application . ' This story I once intended to omit , as ...
... honour ; which his lordship hearing , left the town : and Mr. Charles Dryden could never have the satisfaction of meeting him , though he sought it till his death with the utmost application . ' This story I once intended to omit , as ...
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