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Page 53
... discovered that any staff was too lyrical for an heroick poem ; but this seems to have been known before by May and Sandys , the translators of the Pharsalia and the Metamorphoses . In the ' Davideis ' are some hemistichs , or verses ...
... discovered that any staff was too lyrical for an heroick poem ; but this seems to have been known before by May and Sandys , the translators of the Pharsalia and the Metamorphoses . In the ' Davideis ' are some hemistichs , or verses ...
Page 188
... discovered , and perhaps somewhat which they would wish to have been suppressed ; for it is inconvenient , in the conflict of factions , to have that disaffection known which cannot safely be punished . Tomkyns was seized on the same ...
... discovered , and perhaps somewhat which they would wish to have been suppressed ; for it is inconvenient , in the conflict of factions , to have that disaffection known which cannot safely be punished . Tomkyns was seized on the same ...
Page 293
... discovered , in many of his writings , an affected and absurd malignity to priests and priest- hood , which naturally raised him many enemies , and which was sometimes as unseasonably resented as it was exerted . Trapp is angry that he ...
... discovered , in many of his writings , an affected and absurd malignity to priests and priest- hood , which naturally raised him many enemies , and which was sometimes as unseasonably resented as it was exerted . Trapp is angry that he ...
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