The Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsWarne, 1872 |
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Pàgina 3
... hope , or the gloominess of despair ; and dresses his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis sometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and sometimes in gems lasting as her virtues . At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged in ...
... hope , or the gloominess of despair ; and dresses his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis sometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and sometimes in gems lasting as her virtues . At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged in ...
Pàgina 6
... hope , that great numbers were inevitably disappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tediously delayed . He had been promised by both Charles the First and Second , the mastership of the Savoy ; " but he lost it , " says Wood ...
... hope , that great numbers were inevitably disappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tediously delayed . He had been promised by both Charles the First and Second , the mastership of the Savoy ; " but he lost it , " says Wood ...
Pàgina 8
... hope to recover my late hurt so far within five or six days ( though it be uncertain yet whether I shall ever recover it ) as to walk about again . And then , methinks , you and I and the dean might be very merry upon St. Ann's Hill ...
... hope to recover my late hurt so far within five or six days ( though it be uncertain yet whether I shall ever recover it ) as to walk about again . And then , methinks , you and I and the dean might be very merry upon St. Ann's Hill ...
Pàgina 17
... Hope shows an unequalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of fate's dilemma wound ; Vain shadow ! which dost ...
... Hope shows an unequalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of fate's dilemma wound ; Vain shadow ! which dost ...
Pàgina 40
... hope , that , " by labour and intense study , which , " says he , " I take to be my portion in this life , joined with a strong propensity of nature , " he might " leave something so written to after - times , as they should not ...
... hope , that , " by labour and intense study , which , " says he , " I take to be my portion in this life , joined with a strong propensity of nature , " he might " leave something so written to after - times , as they should not ...
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