Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Page 128
... pleasure of affluence to that of integrity . On this , and on many other occasions , he was ready to lament the misery of living at the tables of other men , which was his fate from the beginning to the end of his life ; for I know not ...
... pleasure of affluence to that of integrity . On this , and on many other occasions , he was ready to lament the misery of living at the tables of other men , which was his fate from the beginning to the end of his life ; for I know not ...
Page 258
... pleasures of your native shore . To all he sued , but chief implor'd for grace The brother kings of Atreus ' royal race . Ye sons of Atreus , may your vows be crown'd , Kings and warriors Your labours , By the Gods be all your labours ...
... pleasures of your native shore . To all he sued , but chief implor'd for grace The brother kings of Atreus ' royal race . Ye sons of Atreus , may your vows be crown'd , Kings and warriors Your labours , By the Gods be all your labours ...
Page 430
... pleasure . Nor can I account for the pleasure of rhyme in general ( of which the moderns are too fond ) but from this truth . " Yet the moderns surely deserve not much censure for their 430 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... pleasure . Nor can I account for the pleasure of rhyme in general ( of which the moderns are too fond ) but from this truth . " Yet the moderns surely deserve not much censure for their 430 LIVES OF THE POETS.
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