Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... Latin appellation of " sugar , " and implies , if it means anything , a spiritless mildness , and dull good - nature , such as excites rather tenderness and esteem , and such as , though always treated with kindness , is never honoured ...
... Latin appellation of " sugar , " and implies , if it means anything , a spiritless mildness , and dull good - nature , such as excites rather tenderness and esteem , and such as , though always treated with kindness , is never honoured ...
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... Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of the name of Caston , a Welsh family , by whom he had two sons , John , the poet , and Christopher , who studied the law , and adhered , as the law taught him , to the king's party , for which he ...
... Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of the name of Caston , a Welsh family , by whom he had two sons , John , the poet , and Christopher , who studied the law , and adhered , as the law taught him , to the king's party , for which he ...
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... Latin tongue ; and he himself , by annexing the dates to his first compositions , a boast of which the learned Politian has given him an example , seems to commend the earliness of his own proficiency to the notice of posterity . But ...
... Latin tongue ; and he himself , by annexing the dates to his first compositions , a boast of which the learned Politian has given him an example , seems to commend the earliness of his own proficiency to the notice of posterity . But ...
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... Latin verses with classic elegance . If any exceptions can be made , they are very few : Haddon and Ascham , the pride of Elizabeth's reign , however they may have succeeded in prose , no sooner attempt verse than they provoke de ...
... Latin verses with classic elegance . If any exceptions can be made , they are very few : Haddon and Ascham , the pride of Elizabeth's reign , however they may have succeeded in prose , no sooner attempt verse than they provoke de ...
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... Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be understood , who shall inform us ? It might be supposed , that he who read so much should have done nothing else ; but Milton found time to write the " Masque of Comus ...
... Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be understood , who shall inform us ? It might be supposed , that he who read so much should have done nothing else ; but Milton found time to write the " Masque of Comus ...
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