The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... expected from so great a man . ” What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his ...
... expected from so great a man . ” What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his ...
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... expected , while others for their money carried away most places , he retired dis- contented into Surrey . " " He was now , " says the courtly Sprat , " weary of the vexations and formalities of an active condition . He had been ...
... expected , while others for their money carried away most places , he retired dis- contented into Surrey . " " He was now , " says the courtly Sprat , " weary of the vexations and formalities of an active condition . He had been ...
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... expected ; yet to him Milton owed his introduction to Manso marquis of Villa , who had been before the patron of Tasso . Manso was enough delighted with his accomplishments to honour him with a sorry distich , in which he commends him ...
... expected ; yet to him Milton owed his introduction to Manso marquis of Villa , who had been before the patron of Tasso . Manso was enough delighted with his accomplishments to honour him with a sorry distich , in which he commends him ...
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... promise like this , at once fervid , pious , and rational , might be expected the Paradise Lost . He published , the same year , two more pamphlets , upon the same question . To one of his antagonists , 78 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... promise like this , at once fervid , pious , and rational , might be expected the Paradise Lost . He published , the same year , two more pamphlets , upon the same question . To one of his antagonists , 78 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... expected all the ad- vantages of a conjugal life . The lady , however , seems not much to have delighted in the pleasures of spare diet and hard study ; for , as Philips relates , " having for a month led a philosophic life , after ...
... expected all the ad- vantages of a conjugal life . The lady , however , seems not much to have delighted in the pleasures of spare diet and hard study ; for , as Philips relates , " having for a month led a philosophic life , after ...
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