Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906 - English poetry |
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Page 113
... lines of Homer , the ' Metamorphoses , ' and some of Euripides , by having often read them . Yet here incredulity is ready to make a stand . Many repetitions are necessary to fix in the memory lines not understood ; and why should ...
... lines of Homer , the ' Metamorphoses , ' and some of Euripides , by having often read them . Yet here incredulity is ready to make a stand . Many repetitions are necessary to fix in the memory lines not understood ; and why should ...
Page 158
... line : Nothing , thou elder brother ev'n to shade . In this line , I know not whether he does not allude to a curious book De Umbra , by Wowerus , which , having told the qualities of Shade , concludes with a poem in which are these lines ...
... line : Nothing , thou elder brother ev'n to shade . In this line , I know not whether he does not allude to a curious book De Umbra , by Wowerus , which , having told the qualities of Shade , concludes with a poem in which are these lines ...
Page 258
... lines , if he can shew me any sense or thought in , or any thing but bombast and noise , he shall make me believe every word in his observations on Morocco sense . ' In the Empress of Morocco were these lines : ' I'll travel then to ...
... lines , if he can shew me any sense or thought in , or any thing but bombast and noise , he shall make me believe every word in his observations on Morocco sense . ' In the Empress of Morocco were these lines : ' I'll travel then to ...
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