Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... Latin for a mulberry - tree , and hints at the known transformation : -Poma alba ferebat Quĉ post nigra tulit Morus . With this piece ended his controversies ; and he from this time gave himself up to his private studies and his civil ...
... Latin for a mulberry - tree , and hints at the known transformation : -Poma alba ferebat Quĉ post nigra tulit Morus . With this piece ended his controversies ; and he from this time gave himself up to his private studies and his civil ...
Page 328
... Latin verses gained him the patronage of Dr. Lancaster , afterwards provost of Queen's College ; by whose ... Latin compositions , which are indeed 1672-1719 LATIN POEMS 329 entitled to particular praise . He 328 1672-1719 ADDISON.
... Latin verses gained him the patronage of Dr. Lancaster , afterwards provost of Queen's College ; by whose ... Latin compositions , which are indeed 1672-1719 LATIN POEMS 329 entitled to particular praise . He 328 1672-1719 ADDISON.
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... Latin , and therefore his profession of regard was probably the effect of his civility rather than approbation . Three of his Latin poems are upon subjects on which perhaps he would not have ventured to have written in his own language ...
... Latin , and therefore his profession of regard was probably the effect of his civility rather than approbation . Three of his Latin poems are upon subjects on which perhaps he would not have ventured to have written in his own language ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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