Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 12
... admired . Yet he describes Sacharissa as a sublime predominating beauty , of lofty charms , and imperious influence , on whom he looks with amazement rather than fondness , whose chains he wishes , though in vain , to break , and whose ...
... admired . Yet he describes Sacharissa as a sublime predominating beauty , of lofty charms , and imperious influence , on whom he looks with amazement rather than fondness , whose chains he wishes , though in vain , to break , and whose ...
Page 13
... admiration . No spectacle is nobler than a blaze . Of this wife , his biographers have recorded that she gave him five sons and eight daughters . During the long interval of Parliament , he is repre- sented as living among those with ...
... admiration . No spectacle is nobler than a blaze . Of this wife , his biographers have recorded that she gave him five sons and eight daughters . During the long interval of Parliament , he is repre- sented as living among those with ...
Page 68
... admired , but now much less . " This is surely the language of a man who thinks that he has been injured . He proceeds to describe the course of his conduct , and the train of his thoughts ; and , be- cause he has been suspected of ...
... admired , but now much less . " This is surely the language of a man who thinks that he has been injured . He proceeds to describe the course of his conduct , and the train of his thoughts ; and , be- cause he has been suspected of ...
Page 75
... admiration , a little praise of his antagonist would be sufficiently offensive , and might incline him to leave Sweden , from which how- ever he was dismissed , not with any mark of cor- tempt , but with a train of attendants scarce ...
... admiration , a little praise of his antagonist would be sufficiently offensive , and might incline him to leave Sweden , from which how- ever he was dismissed , not with any mark of cor- tempt , but with a train of attendants scarce ...
Page 96
... admired .量 The sale , if it be considered , will justify the public . Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own , should always doubt their conclusions . The call for books was not , in Milton's age , what it is ...
... admired .量 The sale , if it be considered , will justify the public . Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own , should always doubt their conclusions . The call for books was not , in Milton's age , what it is ...
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