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Pagina 49
... common duty of living in quiet , to be rewarded with the common right of protection : but this , which , when he sculked from the approach of his King , was perhaps more than he hoped , seems not to have satisfied him ; for no sooner is ...
... common duty of living in quiet , to be rewarded with the common right of protection : but this , which , when he sculked from the approach of his King , was perhaps more than he hoped , seems not to have satisfied him ; for no sooner is ...
Pagina 114
... common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or para- phrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , how- ever justly , under ...
... common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed the Anacreontiques , or para- phrastical translations of some little poems , which pass , how- ever justly , under ...
Pagina 132
... common heroick of ten syllables , and from him Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestick , and has therefore deviated into that measure when ...
... common heroick of ten syllables , and from him Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestick , and has therefore deviated into that measure when ...
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Milton | 15 |
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