Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... reader's opinion . " Let us not , " says his last ingenious biographer , " condemn him with untem- pered severity , because he was not a prodigy which the world hath seldom seen , because his character included not the poet , the orator ...
... reader's opinion . " Let us not , " says his last ingenious biographer , " condemn him with untem- pered severity , because he was not a prodigy which the world hath seldom seen , because his character included not the poet , the orator ...
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... reader shall lay aside . The subject of the dis- putation is not piety , but the motives to piety ; that of the description is not God , but the works of God . Contemplative piety , or the intercourse between God and the 46 LIVES OF THE ...
... reader shall lay aside . The subject of the dis- putation is not piety , but the motives to piety ; that of the description is not God , but the works of God . Contemplative piety , or the intercourse between God and the 46 LIVES OF THE ...
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... reader justly 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 ...
... reader justly 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 ...
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... reader may judge how much he improved it . 1 . Erminia's steed ( this while ) his mistresse bore Through forrests thicke among the shadie treene , Her feeble hand the bridle raines forelore , Halfe in a swoune she was for fear I weene ...
... reader may judge how much he improved it . 1 . Erminia's steed ( this while ) his mistresse bore Through forrests thicke among the shadie treene , Her feeble hand the bridle raines forelore , Halfe in a swoune she was for fear I weene ...
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... readers has ever heard . That in his school , as in everything else which he undertook , he laboured with great diligence , there is no reason for doubting . One part of his method deserves general imitation . He was careful to instruct ...
... readers has ever heard . That in his school , as in everything else which he undertook , he laboured with great diligence , there is no reason for doubting . One part of his method deserves general imitation . He was careful to instruct ...
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