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Pàgina xxi
... appear to have set rather too high a rate on the hospitality paid to a stranger , when they contended it should shut the mouth of a literary traveller upon all subjects but those of panegyric . Dr. Johnson took a better way of repaying ...
... appear to have set rather too high a rate on the hospitality paid to a stranger , when they contended it should shut the mouth of a literary traveller upon all subjects but those of panegyric . Dr. Johnson took a better way of repaying ...
Pàgina 2
... appears to have con- sidered as injurious to his reputation ; though , during the suppression of the theatres , it was sometimes privately acted with sufficient approbation . In 1643 , being now master of arts , he was , by the ...
... appears to have con- sidered as injurious to his reputation ; though , during the suppression of the theatres , it was sometimes privately acted with sufficient approbation . In 1643 , being now master of arts , he was , by the ...
Pàgina 3
... appear the champion as the poet of an airy " nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow . It is surely not difficult , in the solitude of a college ...
... appear the champion as the poet of an airy " nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow . It is surely not difficult , in the solitude of a college ...
Pàgina 7
... appears , however , from the theatrical register of Downes the prompter , to have been popularly con- sidered as a satire on the royalists . That he might shorten this tedious suspense , he published his preten- sions and his discontent ...
... appears , however , from the theatrical register of Downes the prompter , to have been popularly con- sidered as a satire on the royalists . That he might shorten this tedious suspense , he published his preten- sions and his discontent ...
Pàgina 12
... appear ; But all my too - much moisture owe To overflowings of the heart below . - COWLEY . The lover supposes his lady acquainted with the ancient laws of augury and rites of sacrifice : And yet this death of mine , I fear , Will ...
... appear ; But all my too - much moisture owe To overflowings of the heart below . - COWLEY . The lover supposes his lady acquainted with the ancient laws of augury and rites of sacrifice : And yet this death of mine , I fear , Will ...
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