Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1906 - 493 pagina's |
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... mean by a mean employment . This , however , his warmest friends seem not to have found ; they therefore shift and palliate . He did not sell literature to all comers at an open shop ; he was a chamber - milliner , and measured his ...
... mean by a mean employment . This , however , his warmest friends seem not to have found ; they therefore shift and palliate . He did not sell literature to all comers at an open shop ; he was a chamber - milliner , and measured his ...
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... mean . His praise of the Queen is too much exaggerated ; an the thought , that she ' saves lovers , by cutting off hope as gangrenes are cured by lopping the limb , ' present nothing to the mind but disgust and horror . Of The Battle of ...
... mean . His praise of the Queen is too much exaggerated ; an the thought , that she ' saves lovers , by cutting off hope as gangrenes are cured by lopping the limb , ' present nothing to the mind but disgust and horror . Of The Battle of ...
Pagina 320
... mean by it ? He knows what Ovid says God did , to prevent such a void in heaven ; perhaps , this was then forgotten : but Virgil talks more sensibly . ' Ver . 49. The scorpion ready to receive thy laws . No , he would not then have ...
... mean by it ? He knows what Ovid says God did , to prevent such a void in heaven ; perhaps , this was then forgotten : but Virgil talks more sensibly . ' Ver . 49. The scorpion ready to receive thy laws . No , he would not then have ...
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