Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Page 107
... delighted with his wit . The term Roman catholick is , he says , one of the Pope's bulls ; it is particular ... delight in publication , a collection of Familiar Epistles in Latin ; to which , being too few to make a volume , he ...
... delighted with his wit . The term Roman catholick is , he says , one of the Pope's bulls ; it is particular ... delight in publication , a collection of Familiar Epistles in Latin ; to which , being too few to make a volume , he ...
Page 127
... delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes of ...
... delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes of ...
Page 202
... delight of the house , ' adds , that he was only concerned to say that , which should make him be applauded , he ... delighted in his company , he obtained only the pardon of his relation Hampden , and the safety of Hampden's son . As ...
... delight of the house , ' adds , that he was only concerned to say that , which should make him be applauded , he ... delighted in his company , he obtained only the pardon of his relation Hampden , and the safety of Hampden's son . As ...
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