Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... perhaps will never be obsolete ; and that were we to judge only by the wording , we could not know what was wrote at twenty , and what at fourscore . " His versification was , in his first essay , such as it appears in his last ...
... perhaps will never be obsolete ; and that were we to judge only by the wording , we could not know what was wrote at twenty , and what at fourscore . " His versification was , in his first essay , such as it appears in his last ...
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... too young to resist beauty , and probably too vain to think himself resistible , he fixed his heart , perhaps half - fondly and half - ambitiously , upon the Lady Dorothea Sidney , eldest daughter of the Earl of Leicester , WALLER . 11.
... too young to resist beauty , and probably too vain to think himself resistible , he fixed his heart , perhaps half - fondly and half - ambitiously , upon the Lady Dorothea Sidney , eldest daughter of the Earl of Leicester , WALLER . 11.
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... Perhaps by traditions pre- served in families more may be discovered . From the verses written at Penshurst , it has been col- lected that he diverted his disappointment by a voyage ; and his biographers , from his poem on the Whales ...
... Perhaps by traditions pre- served in families more may be discovered . From the verses written at Penshurst , it has been col- lected that he diverted his disappointment by a voyage ; and his biographers , from his poem on the Whales ...
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... perhaps , be more agreeable . Howsoever , if they be still in passion , it becomes us soberly to consider the right use and antiquity thereof ; and not to comply further with a general desire , than may stand with a general good . " We ...
... perhaps , be more agreeable . Howsoever , if they be still in passion , it becomes us soberly to consider the right use and antiquity thereof ; and not to comply further with a general desire , than may stand with a general good . " We ...
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... perhaps may be Lex Agraria , the like equality in things temporal . " The Roman story tells us , that when the people began to flock about the Senate , and were more curious to direct and know what was done , than to obey , that Common ...
... perhaps may be Lex Agraria , the like equality in things temporal . " The Roman story tells us , that when the people began to flock about the Senate , and were more curious to direct and know what was done , than to obey , that Common ...
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