The Lives of the English PoetsJones and Company, 1848 - 365 pagina's |
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Pagina 3
... sent time would be considered as merely ludi- crous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this ...
... sent time would be considered as merely ludi- crous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this ...
Pagina 21
... sent to Oxford , where he w considered “ as a dreaming young man , given more to dice and cards than study : " and there- fore gave no prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggishness and laxity , a ...
... sent to Oxford , where he w considered “ as a dreaming young man , given more to dice and cards than study : " and there- fore gave no prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggishness and laxity , a ...
Pagina 25
... sent to St. Paul's School , under the care of Mr. Gill ; and removed , in the be- ginning of his sixteenth year , to Christ's Col- lege , in Cambridge , where he entered a sizar , " Feb. 12 , 1624 . He was at this time eminently skilled ...
... sent to St. Paul's School , under the care of Mr. Gill ; and removed , in the be- ginning of his sixteenth year , to Christ's Col- lege , in Cambridge , where he entered a sizar , " Feb. 12 , 1624 . He was at this time eminently skilled ...
Pagina 28
... sent away a collection of music and other books , travelled to Geneva , which he probably considered as the metropolis of orthodoxy . Here he reposed as in a congenial element , and became acquainted with John Diodati and Fre- derick ...
... sent away a collection of music and other books , travelled to Geneva , which he probably considered as the metropolis of orthodoxy . Here he reposed as in a congenial element , and became acquainted with John Diodati and Fre- derick ...
Pagina 30
... sent her a letter , but had no an- swer : he sent more with the same success . It could be alleged that letters miscarry ; he there- fore despatched a messenger , being by this time too angry to go himself . His messenger was sent back ...
... sent her a letter , but had no an- swer : he sent more with the same success . It could be alleged that letters miscarry ; he there- fore despatched a messenger , being by this time too angry to go himself . His messenger was sent back ...
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