Lives of the English Poets: In Two VolumesJ. M. Dent, 1964 - 4 pagina's |
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Pagina 149
... perhaps without suspecting for what reason their conduct was altered ; for he still continued to harass , with his nocturnal intrusions , those that yet countenanced him , and admitted him to their houses . But he did not spend all the ...
... perhaps without suspecting for what reason their conduct was altered ; for he still continued to harass , with his nocturnal intrusions , those that yet countenanced him , and admitted him to their houses . But he did not spend all the ...
Pagina 255
... perhaps without much loss to mankind ; for his hero was Brutus the Trojan , who , according to a ridiculous fiction , established a colony in Britain . The subject therefore was of the fabulous age ; the actors were a race upon whom ...
... perhaps without much loss to mankind ; for his hero was Brutus the Trojan , who , according to a ridiculous fiction , established a colony in Britain . The subject therefore was of the fabulous age ; the actors were a race upon whom ...
Pagina 275
... perhaps the like return might properly be made to a modern Pindarist , as Mr. Cobb received from Bentley , who , when he found his criticisms upon a Greek Exercise , which Cobb had presented , refuted one after another by Pindar's ...
... perhaps the like return might properly be made to a modern Pindarist , as Mr. Cobb received from Bentley , who , when he found his criticisms upon a Greek Exercise , which Cobb had presented , refuted one after another by Pindar's ...
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