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Page 13
... seems to have had what Milton is be- lieved to have wanted , the skill to rate his own performances by their just value , and has there- fore closed his Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have ...
... seems to have had what Milton is be- lieved to have wanted , the skill to rate his own performances by their just value , and has there- fore closed his Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have ...
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... seems to have borrowed from him . He says of Goliah , His spear , the trunk was of a lofty tree , Which nature meant some tall ship's mast should be . Milton of Satan : His spear , to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills ...
... seems to have borrowed from him . He says of Goliah , His spear , the trunk was of a lofty tree , Which nature meant some tall ship's mast should be . Milton of Satan : His spear , to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills ...
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... seems to have divided his studies between law and poetry : for , in 1636 , he translated the second book of the Æneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , notwithstanding his resolutions and professions , he returned again ...
... seems to have divided his studies between law and poetry : for , in 1636 , he translated the second book of the Æneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , notwithstanding his resolutions and professions , he returned again ...
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... seems now to have learned some attention to money ; for Wood says , that he got by this place seven thousand pounds . 4 SV018 ( SJE 14 After the restoration , he wrote the poem on Prudence and Justice , and perhaps some of his other ...
... seems now to have learned some attention to money ; for Wood says , that he got by this place seven thousand pounds . 4 SV018 ( SJE 14 After the restoration , he wrote the poem on Prudence and Justice , and perhaps some of his other ...
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... seems to have been , at least among us , the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry ... seem'd , although Each had an army , as an equal toe A Such was his force of eloquence , to make The hearers ...
... seems to have been , at least among us , the author of a species of composition that may be denominated local poetry ... seem'd , although Each had an army , as an equal toe A Such was his force of eloquence , to make The hearers ...
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