LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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Page 59
... pleasure is to tax his adversary , so renowned for criticism , with vicious Latin . He opens his book with telling that he has used Persona , which , according to Milton , signifies only a Mask , in a sense not known to the Romans , by ...
... pleasure is to tax his adversary , so renowned for criticism , with vicious Latin . He opens his book with telling that he has used Persona , which , according to Milton , signifies only a Mask , in a sense not known to the Romans , by ...
Page 72
... pleasure or accomplishment , and who buy the numerous products cf modern typography , the number was then comparatively small . To prove the paucity of readers , it may be sufficient to remark , that the nation had been satisfied from ...
... pleasure or accomplishment , and who buy the numerous products cf modern typography , the number was then comparatively small . To prove the paucity of readers , it may be sufficient to remark , that the nation had been satisfied from ...
Page 73
... pleasure , and very seldom so as to convey meaning . If few men would have had resolution to write books with such embarrassments , few likewise would have wanted ability to find some better expedient : " Three years after his Paradise ...
... pleasure , and very seldom so as to convey meaning . If few men would have had resolution to write books with such embarrassments , few likewise would have wanted ability to find some better expedient : " Three years after his Paradise ...
Page 74
... pleasure , as they recalled to his memory the days of youth ; but for which nothing but veneration for his name could now procure a reader . . When he had attained his sixty - sixth year , the gout , with which he had been long ...
... pleasure , as they recalled to his memory the days of youth ; but for which nothing but veneration for his name could now procure a reader . . When he had attained his sixty - sixth year , the gout , with which he had been long ...
Page 80
... pleasure , had he not known its author . Of the two pieces , L'Allegro and fl Penseroso , I believe opinion is uniform ; every man that reads them , reads them with pleasure . The author's design is not , what Theobald has remarked ...
... pleasure , had he not known its author . Of the two pieces , L'Allegro and fl Penseroso , I believe opinion is uniform ; every man that reads them , reads them with pleasure . The author's design is not , what Theobald has remarked ...
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