Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1964 |
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Pagina 71
... tell what they do not know to be true , only to excuse an act which no wise man will consider as in itself disgrace- ful . His father was alive ; his allowance was not ample ; and he supplied its deficiencies by an honest and useful ...
... tell what they do not know to be true , only to excuse an act which no wise man will consider as in itself disgrace- ful . His father was alive ; his allowance was not ample ; and he supplied its deficiencies by an honest and useful ...
Pagina 113
... tell how a shep- herd has lost his companion , and must now feed his flocks alone , without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas , and how neither god can tell . He who thus ...
... tell how a shep- herd has lost his companion , and must now feed his flocks alone , without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas , and how neither god can tell . He who thus ...
Pagina 182
... tell them , that he ' is in custody , as he conceives , without any charge ; and that , by what Mr. Waller hath threatened him with since he was imprisoned , he doth apprehend a very cruel , long , and ruinous restraint : —he therefore ...
... tell them , that he ' is in custody , as he conceives , without any charge ; and that , by what Mr. Waller hath threatened him with since he was imprisoned , he doth apprehend a very cruel , long , and ruinous restraint : —he therefore ...
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