The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... answer of his oracle . * Consulting the Virgilian Lots , Sortes Virgilia- næ , is a method of divination by the opening of Virgil , and applying to the circumstances of the peruser the first passage in either of the two pages that he ...
... answer of his oracle . * Consulting the Virgilian Lots , Sortes Virgilia- næ , is a method of divination by the opening of Virgil , and applying to the circumstances of the peruser the first passage in either of the two pages that he ...
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... answer in some proportion ; All the world's riches : and in good men , this Virtue , our form's form , and our soul's soul , is . Of thoughts so far - fetched , as to be not only un- expected , but unnatural , all their books are full ...
... answer in some proportion ; All the world's riches : and in good men , this Virtue , our form's form , and our soul's soul , is . Of thoughts so far - fetched , as to be not only un- expected , but unnatural , all their books are full ...
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... Answer . Of this Answer a Confutation was attempted by the learned Usher ; and to the Confutation Milton published a reply , entitled , " Of Prelatical Episcopacy , and whether it may be deduced from the Apostolical Times , by virtue of ...
... Answer . Of this Answer a Confutation was attempted by the learned Usher ; and to the Confutation Milton published a reply , entitled , " Of Prelatical Episcopacy , and whether it may be deduced from the Apostolical Times , by virtue of ...
Page 88
... answers in general terms . " The fellows of the college wherein I spent some years , at my parting , after I had taken two de- grees , as the manner is , signified many times how much better it would content them that I should stay . As ...
... answers in general terms . " The fellows of the college wherein I spent some years , at my parting , after I had taken two de- grees , as the manner is , signified many times how much better it would content them that I should stay . As ...
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... answer : he - sent more with the same success . It could be alleged that letters miscarry ; he therefore dispatched a messen- ger , being by this time too angry to go himself . His messenger was sent back with some contempt . The family ...
... answer : he - sent more with the same success . It could be alleged that letters miscarry ; he therefore dispatched a messen- ger , being by this time too angry to go himself . His messenger was sent back with some contempt . The family ...
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