Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1933 |
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Pagina 38
... shew us that he knows what an egg contains : Thou into the close nests of Time dost peep , And there with piercing eye Through the firm shell and the thick white dost spy Years to come a - forming lie , Close in their sacred fecundine ...
... shew us that he knows what an egg contains : Thou into the close nests of Time dost peep , And there with piercing eye Through the firm shell and the thick white dost spy Years to come a - forming lie , Close in their sacred fecundine ...
Pagina 310
... shew a mind replete with ideas ; the numbers are smooth , and the diction , if not altogether correct , is elegant and easy . Davenant was perhaps at this time his favourite author , though Gondibert never appears to have been popular ...
... shew a mind replete with ideas ; the numbers are smooth , and the diction , if not altogether correct , is elegant and easy . Davenant was perhaps at this time his favourite author , though Gondibert never appears to have been popular ...
Pagina 469
... shew that the English language might be very happily adapted to musick . This was impudently opposed by those who were employed in the Italian opera ; and , what cannot be told without indignation , the intruders had such interest with ...
... shew that the English language might be very happily adapted to musick . This was impudently opposed by those who were employed in the Italian opera ; and , what cannot be told without indignation , the intruders had such interest with ...
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