Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageOctagon Books, 1967 - English poetry |
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Page 60
... quoted in their notes will fully justify . Garth , speaking of the mischief done by quacks , has these expressions : ' Non tamen telis vulnerat ista agyrtarum colluvies , sed theriacâ 6 quâdam magis perniciosâ , non pyrio , sed pulvere ...
... quoted in their notes will fully justify . Garth , speaking of the mischief done by quacks , has these expressions : ' Non tamen telis vulnerat ista agyrtarum colluvies , sed theriacâ 6 quâdam magis perniciosâ , non pyrio , sed pulvere ...
Page 366
... quoted : - False pride ! What vices on our conduct steal , From the world's eye one frailty to conceal ! Ye cruel mothers ! -Soft ! those words command ; So near shall cruelty and mother stand ? Can the dove's bosom snaky venom draw ...
... quoted : - False pride ! What vices on our conduct steal , From the world's eye one frailty to conceal ! Ye cruel mothers ! -Soft ! those words command ; So near shall cruelty and mother stand ? Can the dove's bosom snaky venom draw ...
Page 377
... quoted - among them the following : - ' Blest be the Bastard's birth ! through wondrous ways He shines eccentric like a comet's blaze ! No sickly fruit of faint compliance he ! He stampt in nature's mint of ecstasy ! He lives to build ...
... quoted - among them the following : - ' Blest be the Bastard's birth ! through wondrous ways He shines eccentric like a comet's blaze ! No sickly fruit of faint compliance he ! He stampt in nature's mint of ecstasy ! He lives to build ...
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