The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country ...
... easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country ...
Pagina 10
... easily find his way back , when solitude should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but slenderly accommodated ; yet he soon obtained , by the interest of the Earl of St. Alban's and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the ...
... easily find his way back , when solitude should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but slenderly accommodated ; yet he soon obtained , by the interest of the Earl of St. Alban's and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the ...
Pagina 11
... easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many transactions in general expressions , and to leave curi- osity often unsatisfied . What he did not tell , cannot how- ever now be known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his ...
... easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many transactions in general expressions , and to leave curi- osity often unsatisfied . What he did not tell , cannot how- ever now be known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his ...
Pagina 14
... easily understood without examples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently distinguished . As the ...
... easily understood without examples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently distinguished . As the ...
Pagina 17
... easily understood , they may be read again . On a round ball A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly make that which was nothing all . So doth each tear , Which thee doth wear , A globe ...
... easily understood , they may be read again . On a round ball A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Asia , And quickly make that which was nothing all . So doth each tear , Which thee doth wear , A globe ...
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