The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pagina's |
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... perhaps willing enough to leave his birth unsettled , in hope , like Don Quixote , that the historian of his actions might find him some illustrious alliance . He is supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of ...
... perhaps willing enough to leave his birth unsettled , in hope , like Don Quixote , that the historian of his actions might find him some illustrious alliance . He is supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of ...
Pagina 2
... perhaps scarcely seen any thing equal , was formed the grand alliance against Louis , which at last did not produce effects proportionate tc the magnificence of the transaction . The conduct of Prior in this splendid initiation into ...
... perhaps scarcely seen any thing equal , was formed the grand alliance against Louis , which at last did not produce effects proportionate tc the magnificence of the transaction . The conduct of Prior in this splendid initiation into ...
Pagina 3
... perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically at- tended . Dryden , indeed , as a man discountenanced and de- prived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses omitted to bring his tribute of tuneful sorrow . An emulation of ...
... perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically at- tended . Dryden , indeed , as a man discountenanced and de- prived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses omitted to bring his tribute of tuneful sorrow . An emulation of ...
Pagina 12
... perhaps Chloe , while he was absent from his house , stole his plate , and ran away ; as was related by a woman who had been his servant . Of this propensity to sordid converse I have seen an account so seriously ridiculous , that it ...
... perhaps Chloe , while he was absent from his house , stole his plate , and ran away ; as was related by a woman who had been his servant . Of this propensity to sordid converse I have seen an account so seriously ridiculous , that it ...
Pagina 13
... perhaps yet older . But the merit of such stories is the art of telling them . In his amorous effusions he is less happy ; for they are not dictated by nature or by passion , and have neither gallantry nor tenderness . They have the ...
... perhaps yet older . But the merit of such stories is the art of telling them . In his amorous effusions he is less happy ; for they are not dictated by nature or by passion , and have neither gallantry nor tenderness . They have the ...
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