Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1933 |
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Pagina 100
... told of other authors , and , though doubtless true of every fertile and copious mind , seems to have been gratui- tously transferred to Milton . What he has told us , and we cannot now know more , is , that he composed much of his poem ...
... told of other authors , and , though doubtless true of every fertile and copious mind , seems to have been gratui- tously transferred to Milton . What he has told us , and we cannot now know more , is , that he composed much of his poem ...
Pagina 439
... told him , I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die . What effect this awful scene had on the earl I know not ; he likewise died himself in a short time . In Tickell's excellent Elegy on his friend are these lines ...
... told him , I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die . What effect this awful scene had on the earl I know not ; he likewise died himself in a short time . In Tickell's excellent Elegy on his friend are these lines ...
Pagina 474
... told of danger to which he was intentionally exposed in a leaky ship , to gratify some resentful jealousy of the king , whose health he therefore would never permit at his table , till he saw himself in a safer place . His voyage was ...
... told of danger to which he was intentionally exposed in a leaky ship , to gratify some resentful jealousy of the king , whose health he therefore would never permit at his table , till he saw himself in a safer place . His voyage was ...
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