Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 25
... expected to be all faithful and all prudent . Chaloner was attended at his execution by Hugh Peters . His crime was , that he had commission to raise money for the king ; but it appears not that the money was to be expended upon the ...
... expected to be all faithful and all prudent . Chaloner was attended at his execution by Hugh Peters . His crime was , that he had commission to raise money for the king ; but it appears not that the money was to be expended upon the ...
Page 47
... expects , and from good poetry always obtains , the enlargement of his com- prehension and elevation of his fancy but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion . What- ever is great , desirable , or tremendous , is ...
... expects , and from good poetry always obtains , the enlargement of his com- prehension and elevation of his fancy but this is rarely to be hoped by Christians from metrical devotion . What- ever is great , desirable , or tremendous , is ...
Page 62
... expected ; yet to him Milton owed his introduction to Manso , Marquis of Villa , who had been before the patron of Tasso . Manso was enough delighted with his accomplish- ments to honour him with a sorry distich , in which he commends ...
... expected ; yet to him Milton owed his introduction to Manso , Marquis of Villa , who had been before the patron of Tasso . Manso was enough delighted with his accomplish- ments to honour him with a sorry distich , in which he commends ...
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... expected the " Paradise Lost . " He published the same year two more pamphlets , upon the same question . To one of his antagonists , who affirms that he was " vomited out of the university , " he answers in general terms : " The ...
... expected the " Paradise Lost . " He published the same year two more pamphlets , upon the same question . To one of his antagonists , who affirms that he was " vomited out of the university , " he answers in general terms : " The ...
Page 69
... expected all the advantages of a conjugal life . The lady , how- ever , seems not much to have delighted in the pleasures of spare diet and hard study ; for , as Philips relates , " having for a month led a philosophic life , after ...
... expected all the advantages of a conjugal life . The lady , how- ever , seems not much to have delighted in the pleasures of spare diet and hard study ; for , as Philips relates , " having for a month led a philosophic life , after ...
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