Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 11
... written when she had brought many children . We have therefore no date of any other poetical production before that which the murder of the Duke of Buckingham occasioned ; the steadiness with which the king received the news in the ...
... written when she had brought many children . We have therefore no date of any other poetical production before that which the murder of the Duke of Buckingham occasioned ; the steadiness with which the king received the news in the ...
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... 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 , think it not improbable that he visited the Bermudas ; but it seems much more likely ...
... 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 , think it not improbable that he visited the Bermudas ; but it seems much more likely ...
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... writing verses ( for he was near thirty years when he first engaged him- self in that exercise , at least that he was known to do so ) , he surprised the town with two or three pieces of that kind ; as if a tenth Muse had been newly ...
... writing verses ( for he was near thirty years when he first engaged him- self in that exercise , at least that he was known to do so ) , he surprised the town with two or three pieces of that kind ; as if a tenth Muse had been newly ...
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... written them , and being charged with the exorbitance of his adulation , answered , that nothing was too much to be ... writing , and his conduct , he was habitually , and deliberately a friend to monarchy . His deviation towards ...
... written them , and being charged with the exorbitance of his adulation , answered , that nothing was too much to be ... writing , and his conduct , he was habitually , and deliberately a friend to monarchy . His deviation towards ...
Page 39
... writing are sprightliness and dignity ; in his smallest pieces , he endeavours to be gay ; in the larger to be great . Of his airy and light productions , the chief source is gallantry , that attentive reverence of female excellence ...
... writing are sprightliness and dignity ; in his smallest pieces , he endeavours to be gay ; in the larger to be great . Of his airy and light productions , the chief source is gallantry , that attentive reverence of female excellence ...
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