Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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Page 82
... opinion Philips has mistaken the time of the year ; for Milton , in his Elegies , declares , that with the advance of the spring he feels the increase of his poetical force , redeunt in carmina vires . To this it is answered , that ...
... opinion Philips has mistaken the time of the year ; for Milton , in his Elegies , declares , that with the advance of the spring he feels the increase of his poetical force , redeunt in carmina vires . To this it is answered , that ...
Page 122
... opinions , are temporary and local , and therefore become every day less intelligible and less striking . What Cicero says of philo- sophy is true likewise of wit and humour , that " time effaces the fictions of opinion , and confirms ...
... opinions , are temporary and local , and therefore become every day less intelligible and less striking . What Cicero says of philo- sophy is true likewise of wit and humour , that " time effaces the fictions of opinion , and confirms ...
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... opinion the shortest and likeliest way of coming at the lady was by demolishing instead of putting on an impertinent disguise to circumvent two or three slaves . But Sempronius , it seems , is of another opinion . He extols to the skies ...
... opinion the shortest and likeliest way of coming at the lady was by demolishing instead of putting on an impertinent disguise to circumvent two or three slaves . But Sempronius , it seems , is of another opinion . He extols to the skies ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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