LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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Page 43
... effect of poetry , but pains ; " Cheap vulgar arts , whose narrowness affords " No flight for thoughts , but poorly stick at words . " A new and nobler way thou dost pursue , " To make translations and translators too . " They but ...
... effect of poetry , but pains ; " Cheap vulgar arts , whose narrowness affords " No flight for thoughts , but poorly stick at words . " A new and nobler way thou dost pursue , " To make translations and translators too . " They but ...
Page 49
... effect appears in his writings . His scheme of education inscribed to Hartlib , supersedes all academi- cal instruction , being intended to comprise the whole time which men usually spend in literature , from their entrance upon grammar ...
... effect appears in his writings . His scheme of education inscribed to Hartlib , supersedes all academi- cal instruction , being intended to comprise the whole time which men usually spend in literature , from their entrance upon grammar ...
Page 54
... effects . From this wonder - working academy , I do not know that there ever proceeded any man very eminent for knowledge : its only genuine product , I believe , is a small History of Poetry , written in Latin by his nephew Philips ...
... effects . From this wonder - working academy , I do not know that there ever proceeded any man very eminent for knowledge : its only genuine product , I believe , is a small History of Poetry , written in Latin by his nephew Philips ...
Page 70
... effects of his disloyalty , had nothing re- . quired from him , but the common duty of living in quiet , to be rewarded with the common right of protection ; but this , which , when he skulked from the ap proach of his King , was ...
... effects of his disloyalty , had nothing re- . quired from him , but the common duty of living in quiet , to be rewarded with the common right of protection ; but this , which , when he skulked from the ap proach of his King , was ...
Page 88
... effects of Adam's disobedience ; we all sin like Adam , and like him must all bewail our offences ; we have restless and insidious ene❤ mies in the fallen angels , and in the blessed spirits we have guardians and friends ; in the ...
... effects of Adam's disobedience ; we all sin like Adam , and like him must all bewail our offences ; we have restless and insidious ene❤ mies in the fallen angels , and in the blessed spirits we have guardians and friends ; in the ...
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