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... seems to have had what Milton is be - dered as the verses of a lover , no man that has 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 ...
... seems to have had what Milton is be - dered as the verses of a lover , no man that has 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 ...
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... seems to have borrowed from him . He says of Goliah , Which nature meant some tall ship's mast should be . ill - read , the art of reading them is at present Who by resolves and vows engaged does stand , For. -I should not find that ...
... seems to have borrowed from him . He says of Goliah , Which nature meant some tall ship's mast should be . ill - read , the art of reading them is at present Who by resolves and vows engaged does stand , For. -I should not find that ...
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... seem to comprise very incongruous and unsoci- able ideas . What there is peculiar in the sound of the line expressing loose ... seems to have been course . ' " In the second book ; known before by May and Sandys , the translators of the ...
... seem to comprise very incongruous and unsoci- able ideas . What there is peculiar in the sound of the line expressing loose ... seems to have been course . ' " In the second book ; known before by May and Sandys , the translators of the ...
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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 . After the restoration , he wrote the poem on Prudence and Justice , and perhaps some of his other pieces and , as he ...
... seems now to have learned some attention to money ; for Wood says , that he got by this place seven thousand pounds . After the restoration , he wrote the poem on Prudence and Justice , and perhaps some of his other pieces and , as he ...
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