The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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Page 71
... better practice as he gains more confidence in himself . In his translation of Virgil , written when he was about twenty - one years old , may be still found the old manner of continuing the sense ungracefully from verse to verse : Then ...
... better practice as he gains more confidence in himself . In his translation of Virgil , written when he was about twenty - one years old , may be still found the old manner of continuing the sense ungracefully from verse to verse : Then ...
Page 78
... better to prefer a blameless silence before the office of speaking , bought and begun with servitude and forswearing . " These expressions are , I find , applied to the sub- scription of the Articles ; but it seems more proba- ble that ...
... better to prefer a blameless silence before the office of speaking , bought and begun with servitude and forswearing . " These expressions are , I find , applied to the sub- scription of the Articles ; but it seems more proba- ble that ...
Page 88
... better it would content them that I should stay . As for the common approbation or dislike of that place as now it is , that I should esteem or disesteem myself the more for that , too simple is the answerer , if he think to obtain with ...
... better it would content them that I should stay . As for the common approbation or dislike of that place as now it is , that I should esteem or disesteem myself the more for that , too simple is the answerer , if he think to obtain with ...
Page 89
... better health , and my younger judg ment , I never greatly admired , but now much less . " This is surely the language of a man who thinks that he has been injured . He proceeds to describe the course of his conduct , and the train of ...
... better health , and my younger judg ment , I never greatly admired , but now much less . " This is surely the language of a man who thinks that he has been injured . He proceeds to describe the course of his conduct , and the train of ...
Page 97
... better authority than any that he has found , that of Juvenal in his fourth satire : -Quid agas , cum dira et fædior omni Crimine persona est ? As Salmasius reproached Milton with losing his eyes in the quarrel , Milton delighted ...
... better authority than any that he has found , that of Juvenal in his fourth satire : -Quid agas , cum dira et fædior omni Crimine persona est ? As Salmasius reproached Milton with losing his eyes in the quarrel , Milton delighted ...
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