Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 35
... kind ; as if a tenth Muse had been newly born to cherish drooping poetry . The doctor at that time brought him into that company which was most celebrated for good conversation , where he was received and esteemed with great applause ...
... kind ; as if a tenth Muse had been newly born to cherish drooping poetry . The doctor at that time brought him into that company which was most celebrated for good conversation , where he was received and esteemed with great applause ...
Page 42
... kind . So the fair tree , which still preserves Her fruit , and state , while no wind blows , In storms from that uprightness swerves ; And the glad earth about her strows With treasure from her yielding boughs . His images are not ...
... kind . So the fair tree , which still preserves Her fruit , and state , while no wind blows , In storms from that uprightness swerves ; And the glad earth about her strows With treasure from her yielding boughs . His images are not ...
Page 45
... kind with the rest . The Sacred Poems , however , deserve particular regard ; they were the work of Waller's declining life , of those hours in which he looked upon the fame and the folly of the time past with the sentiments which his ...
... kind with the rest . The Sacred Poems , however , deserve particular regard ; they were the work of Waller's declining life , of those hours in which he looked upon the fame and the folly of the time past with the sentiments which his ...
Page 58
... kind- ness and reverence can give to the term , " vetiti laris , " " a habitation from which he is excluded ; " or how " exile can be otherwise interpreted . He declares yet more , that he is weary of enduring “ the threats of a ...
... kind- ness and reverence can give to the term , " vetiti laris , " " a habitation from which he is excluded ; " or how " exile can be otherwise interpreted . He declares yet more , that he is weary of enduring “ the threats of a ...
Page 85
... kind of respect , perhaps uncon- sciously paid to this great man by his biographers : every house in which he resided is historically mentioned , as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence . The ...
... kind of respect , perhaps uncon- sciously paid to this great man by his biographers : every house in which he resided is historically mentioned , as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence . The ...
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