Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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Page 73
... Latin for a mulberry - tree , and hints at the known transformation : -Poma alba ferebat Quć 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 Quć 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 91
... Latin secretary , with 200l . a year ; and had 1000l . for his Defence of the People . His widow , who after his ... Latin , Italian , French , and Spanish . In Latin his skill was such as places him in the first rank of writers ...
... Latin secretary , with 200l . a year ; and had 1000l . for his Defence of the People . His widow , who after his ... Latin , Italian , French , and Spanish . In Latin his skill was such as places him in the first rank of writers ...
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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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