The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pages |
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... seem to have been ambitious ; and " Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to ... seems to be now universally neglected . At the beginning of the civil war , as the Prince passed through Cambridge ...
... seem to have been ambitious ; and " Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to ... seems to be now universally neglected . At the beginning of the civil war , as the Prince passed through Cambridge ...
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... seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow . " It is surely not difficult , in the ...
... seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow . " It is surely not difficult , in the ...
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... seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : " The Scotch treaty , " says he , " is the only thing now in which we are vitally concerned : I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now abstain ...
... seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : " The Scotch treaty , " says he , " is the only thing now in which we are vitally concerned : I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now abstain ...
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... seems to have inserted something suppressed in subsequent editions , which was interpreted to denote some relaxation ... seem to have lessened his reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily believe to be undissembled ; a man ...
... seems to have inserted something suppressed in subsequent editions , which was interpreted to denote some relaxation ... seem to have lessened his reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily believe to be undissembled ; a man ...
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... seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommo- dates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions ...
... seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommo- dates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions ...
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