Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1933 |
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Pagina 112
... desire of independence ; in petulance impatient of con- troul , and pride disdainful of superiority . He hated X monarchs in the state , and prelates in the church ; for he hated all whom he was required to obey . It is to be suspected ...
... desire of independence ; in petulance impatient of con- troul , and pride disdainful of superiority . He hated X monarchs in the state , and prelates in the church ; for he hated all whom he was required to obey . It is to be suspected ...
Pagina 180
... desires ; but that which is first in dignity is not always to precede in order of time ; for well - being supposes a being ; and the first impediment which men naturally endeavour to remove , is the want of those things without which ...
... desires ; but that which is first in dignity is not always to precede in order of time ; for well - being supposes a being ; and the first impediment which men naturally endeavour to remove , is the want of those things without which ...
Pagina 357
... desire . My Virgil succeeds in the world beyond its desert or my expectation . You know the profits might have been more ; but neither my conscience nor my honour would suffer me to take them : but I never can repent of my constancy ...
... desire . My Virgil succeeds in the world beyond its desert or my expectation . You know the profits might have been more ; but neither my conscience nor my honour would suffer me to take them : but I never can repent of my constancy ...
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