The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... opinion concerning Manna : Variety I ask not : give me one To live perpetually upon . The person Love does to us fit , Like manna , has the taste of all in it . Thus Donne shews his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastic verses : In ...
... opinion concerning Manna : Variety I ask not : give me one To live perpetually upon . The person Love does to us fit , Like manna , has the taste of all in it . Thus Donne shews his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastic verses : In ...
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... opinions from which they drew their illustra- tions were true ; it was enough that they were po- pular . Bacon remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply com- modious allusions . It gave a piteous ...
... opinions from which they drew their illustra- tions were true ; it was enough that they were po- pular . Bacon remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply com- modious allusions . It gave a piteous ...
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... opinions , which discover no irreverence of religion , must defend him ; but that the accusation of lasciviousness is unjust , the peru- sal of his work will sufficiently evince . Cowley's Mistress has no power of seduction : she ...
... opinions , which discover no irreverence of religion , must defend him ; but that the accusation of lasciviousness is unjust , the peru- sal of his work will sufficiently evince . Cowley's Mistress has no power of seduction : she ...
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... opinion is erroneous , may be probably concluded , because this truncation is imitated by no subsequent Roman poet : because Virgil himself filled up one broken line in the heat of recitation ; because in one the sense is now un ...
... opinion is erroneous , may be probably concluded , because this truncation is imitated by no subsequent Roman poet : because Virgil himself filled up one broken line in the heat of recitation ; because in one the sense is now un ...
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... opinions but the thoughts of obedience , whether canonical or civil , raised his indignation . His unwillingness to engage in the ministry , per- haps not yet advanced to a settled resolution of de- clining it , appears in a letter to ...
... opinions but the thoughts of obedience , whether canonical or civil , raised his indignation . His unwillingness to engage in the ministry , per- haps not yet advanced to a settled resolution of de- clining it , appears in a letter to ...
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