The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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Page 49
... friends . He was yet engaged in a greater undertaking . In April , 1648 , he conveyed James the duke of York from London into France , and delivered him there to the Queen and Prince of Wales . This year he published his translation of ...
... friends . He was yet engaged in a greater undertaking . In April , 1648 , he conveyed James the duke of York from London into France , and delivered him there to the Queen and Prince of Wales . This year he published his translation of ...
Page 54
... friends ; nor thee , Pantheus , thy piety , Nor consecrated mitre , from the same Ill fate could save , my country's funeral flame And Troy's cold ashes I attest , and call To witness for myself , that in their fall No foes , no death ...
... friends ; nor thee , Pantheus , thy piety , Nor consecrated mitre , from the same Ill fate could save , my country's funeral flame And Troy's cold ashes I attest , and call To witness for myself , that in their fall No foes , no death ...
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... canonical or civil , raised his indignation . His unwillingness to engage in the ministry , perhaps not yet advanced to a settled resolution of declining it , appears in a letter to one of his friends , who had MILTON . 59.
... canonical or civil , raised his indignation . His unwillingness to engage in the ministry , perhaps not yet advanced to a settled resolution of declining it , appears in a letter to one of his friends , who had MILTON . 59.
Page 60
Samuel Johnson. a letter to one of his friends , who had reproved his suspended and dilatory life , which he seems to have imputed to an insatiable curiosity , and fantastic luxury of various know- ledge . To this he writes a cool and ...
Samuel Johnson. a letter to one of his friends , who had reproved his suspended and dilatory life , which he seems to have imputed to an insatiable curiosity , and fantastic luxury of various know- ledge . To this he writes a cool and ...
Page 63
... friend Charles Diodati ; a man whom it is reasonable to suppose of great merit , since he was thought by Milton worthy of a poem , entitled " Epitaphium Damonis , " written with the common but childish imitation of pastoral life . He ...
... friend Charles Diodati ; a man whom it is reasonable to suppose of great merit , since he was thought by Milton worthy of a poem , entitled " Epitaphium Damonis , " written with the common but childish imitation of pastoral life . He ...
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