Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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Page 52
... observed in divers other places of this poem , that else will pass for very careless verses : as before , And over - runs the neighb'ring fields with violent course . In the second book , Down a precipice deep , down he casts them all ...
... observed in divers other places of this poem , that else will pass for very careless verses : as before , And over - runs the neighb'ring fields with violent course . In the second book , Down a precipice deep , down he casts them all ...
Page 180
... observe . ' God first assigned Adam , ' says Hooker , main- tenance of life , and then appointed him a law to observe . - True it is , that the kingdom of God must be the first thing in our purpose and desires ; but inasmuch as a ...
... observe . ' God first assigned Adam , ' says Hooker , main- tenance of life , and then appointed him a law to observe . - True it is , that the kingdom of God must be the first thing in our purpose and desires ; but inasmuch as a ...
Page 249
... observed , that what is good only because it pleases , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please . Sir Martin Marall is a comedy , published without preface or dedication , and at first without the name of the author ...
... observed , that what is good only because it pleases , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please . Sir Martin Marall is a comedy , published without preface or dedication , and at first without the name of the author ...
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