Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906 - 493 pagina's |
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Pagina 9
... Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If the Latin performances of Cowley and Milton be compared , for May I hold to ...
... Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with any other of the lettered nations . If the Latin performances of Cowley and Milton be compared , for May I hold to ...
Pagina 87
... Latin , and that man blind . Being now forty - seven years old , and seeing himself disencumbered from external interruptions , he seems to have recollected his former purposes , and to have resumed three great works which he had ...
... Latin , and that man blind . Being now forty - seven years old , and seeing himself disencumbered from external interruptions , he seems to have recollected his former purposes , and to have resumed three great works which he had ...
Pagina 416
... Latin verses gained him the patronage of Dr. Lancaster , afterwards provost of Queen's College ; by whose recommendation he was elected into Magdalen College as a Demy , a term by which that society denominates those which are elsewhere ...
... Latin verses gained him the patronage of Dr. Lancaster , afterwards provost of Queen's College ; by whose recommendation he was elected into Magdalen College as a Demy , a term by which that society denominates those which are elsewhere ...
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