Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 11
... 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.
... 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.
Page 15
... probably the more ardent , as his uncle Hampden had been particularly engaged in the dispute , and , by a sentence which seems generally to be thought unconstitutional , particularly injured . He was not , however , a bigot to his party ...
... probably the more ardent , as his uncle Hampden had been particularly engaged in the dispute , and , by a sentence which seems generally to be thought unconstitutional , particularly injured . He was not , however , a bigot to his party ...
Page 38
... probably contracted debts when he lived in exile ; for we are told , that at Paris he lived in splendour , and was the only Englishman , except the Lord St. Albans , that kept a table . His unlucky plot compelled him to sell a thousand ...
... probably contracted debts when he lived in exile ; for we are told , that at Paris he lived in splendour , and was the only Englishman , except the Lord St. Albans , that kept a table . His unlucky plot compelled him to sell a thousand ...
Page 55
... probably more than common liter- ature , as his son addresses him in one of his most elabo- rate Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of the name of Caston , a Welsh family , by whom he had two sons , John , the poet , and Christopher ...
... probably more than common liter- ature , as his son addresses him in one of his most elabo- rate Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of the name of Caston , a Welsh family , by whom he had two sons , John , the poet , and Christopher ...
Page 58
... probably punishment . This poem , which mentions his " exile , " proves likewise that it was not perpetual ; for it concludes with a reso- lution of returning some time to Cambridge . And it may be conjectured , from the willingness ...
... probably punishment . This poem , which mentions his " exile , " proves likewise that it was not perpetual ; for it concludes with a reso- lution of returning some time to Cambridge . And it may be conjectured , from the willingness ...
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