The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... honour . So wide was his province of intelligence , that , for several years , it filled all his days and two or three nights in the week . In the year 1647 , his " Mistress " was published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his ...
... honour . So wide was his province of intelligence , that , for several years , it filled all his days and two or three nights in the week . In the year 1647 , his " Mistress " was published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his ...
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... honour of his coun- try . Considering botany as necessary to a physi- cian , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and as the predominance of a favourite study affects all subordinate operations of the intellect , botany in the mind ...
... honour of his coun- try . Considering botany as necessary to a physi- cian , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and as the predominance of a favourite study affects all subordinate operations of the intellect , botany in the mind ...
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... honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist , and no woman whore ; Yet why should hallow'd vestal's sacred shrine Deserve more honour than a flaming mine ? These ...
... honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist , and no woman whore ; Yet why should hallow'd vestal's sacred shrine Deserve more honour than a flaming mine ? These ...
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... honour or where conscience does not bind , No other law shall shackle me ; Slave to myself I ne'er will be ; Nor shall my future actions be confin'd By my own present mind . Who by resolves and vows engag'd does stand , For days that ...
... honour or where conscience does not bind , No other law shall shackle me ; Slave to myself I ne'er will be ; Nor shall my future actions be confin'd By my own present mind . Who by resolves and vows engag'd does stand , For days that ...
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... honour to his memory . Milton's ac- quaintance with the Italian writers may be disco- vered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses , according to the rules of Tuscan poetry , and his malignity to the church , by some lines which are ...
... honour to his memory . Milton's ac- quaintance with the Italian writers may be disco- vered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses , according to the rules of Tuscan poetry , and his malignity to the church , by some lines which are ...
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