The Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsWarne, 1872 |
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Pàgina 20
... mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : Sum Nilus , sumque Etna simul ; restringite flammas ...
... mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : Sum Nilus , sumque Etna simul ; restringite flammas ...
Pàgina 21
... mentioned in a single word , and Cowley spends three lines in swearing by the Castalian Stream . We are told of Theron's bounty , with a hint that he had enemies , which Cowley thus enlarges in rhyming prose : But in this thankless ...
... mentioned in a single word , and Cowley spends three lines in swearing by the Castalian Stream . We are told of Theron's bounty , with a hint that he had enemies , which Cowley thus enlarges in rhyming prose : But in this thankless ...
Pàgina 39
... mention of this name , he evidently refers to Albumazar , acted at Cambridge in 1614. Ignoramus and other plays were performed at the same time . The practice was then very frequent . The last dramatic performance at either university ...
... mention of this name , he evidently refers to Albumazar , acted at Cambridge in 1614. Ignoramus and other plays were performed at the same time . The practice was then very frequent . The last dramatic performance at either university ...
Pàgina 44
... mentioned in one of his sonnets . At last Michaelmas arrived ; but the lady had no in- clination to return to the sullen gloom of her husband's habitation , and therefore very willingly forgot her promise . He sent her a letter , but ...
... mentioned in one of his sonnets . At last Michaelmas arrived ; but the lady had no in- clination to return to the sullen gloom of her husband's habitation , and therefore very willingly forgot her promise . He sent her a letter , but ...
Pàgina 53
... mentioned , as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence . The king , with lenity of which the world has had perhaps no other . example , declined to be the judge or avenger of his own or his ...
... mentioned , as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence . The king , with lenity of which the world has had perhaps no other . example , declined to be the judge or avenger of his own or his ...
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