Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 17
... Common- wealth soon came to ruin ; their Legem rogare grew quickly to be a Legem ferre : and after , when their legions had found that they could make a Dictator , they never suffered the Senate to have a voice any more in such election ...
... Common- wealth soon came to ruin ; their Legem rogare grew quickly to be a Legem ferre : and after , when their legions had found that they could make a Dictator , they never suffered the Senate to have a voice any more in such election ...
Page 27
... common style of conversa- is tion . a 1- ze He repaid the Protector for his favours ( 1654 ) by the famous Panegyric , which has been always considered as the first of his poetical productions . His choice of encomiastic topics is very ...
... common style of conversa- is tion . a 1- ze He repaid the Protector for his favours ( 1654 ) by the famous Panegyric , which has been always considered as the first of his poetical productions . His choice of encomiastic topics is very ...
Page 34
... common understanding . Edmund , the second son , inherited the estate , and represented Agmondesham in parliament , but at last turned quaker . William , the third son , was a merchant in London . Stephen , the fourth , was an eminent ...
... common understanding . Edmund , the second son , inherited the estate , and represented Agmondesham in parliament , but at last turned quaker . William , the third son , was a merchant in London . Stephen , the fourth , was an eminent ...
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... common- practice ; to have been a hoarder in his first years , and a squanderer in his last . Of his course of studies , or choice of books , nothing is known more than that he professed himself unable to : read Chapman's translation of ...
... common- practice ; to have been a hoarder in his first years , and a squanderer in his last . Of his course of studies , or choice of books , nothing is known more than that he professed himself unable to : read Chapman's translation of ...
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... common degrees of knowledge ; and is free at least from philosophical pedantry , unless per- haps the end of a song to the Sun may be excepted , in which he is too much a Copernican . To which may be added the simile of the " palm " in ...
... common degrees of knowledge ; and is free at least from philosophical pedantry , unless per- haps the end of a song to the Sun may be excepted , in which he is too much a Copernican . To which may be added the simile of the " palm " in ...
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