Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Page 32
... common authors may justly think not only above their attain- ment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or paraphrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under ...
... common authors may justly think not only above their attain- ment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or paraphrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under ...
Page 100
... common train of Nature , are eagerly caught by the lovers of a wonder . something of this inequality happens to every man in every mode of exertion , manual or mental . The mechanick cannot handle his hammer and his file at all times ...
... common train of Nature , are eagerly caught by the lovers of a wonder . something of this inequality happens to every man in every mode of exertion , manual or mental . The mechanick cannot handle his hammer and his file at all times ...
Page 101
... common duty of living in quiet , to be rewarded with the common right of protection : but this , which , when he sculked from the approach of his King , was perhaps more than he hoped , seems not to have satisfied him ; for no sooner is ...
... common duty of living in quiet , to be rewarded with the common right of protection : but this , which , when he sculked from the approach of his King , was perhaps more than he hoped , seems not to have satisfied him ; for no sooner is ...
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