The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1James Sawers, 1818 - 1271 pàgines |
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Pàgina ix
... daughter of a Welsh physician , and a woman of more than ordinary ta- lents and literature , who had just lost her sight . She had contracted a close intimacy with his wife , and after her death she had an apartment from him at all ...
... daughter of a Welsh physician , and a woman of more than ordinary ta- lents and literature , who had just lost her sight . She had contracted a close intimacy with his wife , and after her death she had an apartment from him at all ...
Pàgina 70
... daughter of Sir Garret More , Baron of Mellefont . Two years afterwards , his father , being made one of the barons of the Exchequer in England , brought him away from his native country , and educated him in London . In 1631 he was ...
... daughter of Sir Garret More , Baron of Mellefont . Two years afterwards , his father , being made one of the barons of the Exchequer in England , brought him away from his native country , and educated him in London . In 1631 he was ...
Pàgina 82
... daughter Anne , whom he mar- ried with a considerable fortune to Edward Philips , who came from Shrewsbury , and rose in the Crown- office to be secondary : by him she had two sons , John and Edward , who were educated by the poet , and ...
... daughter Anne , whom he mar- ried with a considerable fortune to Edward Philips , who came from Shrewsbury , and rose in the Crown- office to be secondary : by him she had two sons , John and Edward , who were educated by the poet , and ...
Pàgina 88
... daughter . The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe , but we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer : ......... a quo ceu fonte perenni Vatum Pieriis ora rigantur aquis . 6 His next production was Lycidas ...
... daughter . The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe , but we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer : ......... a quo ceu fonte perenni Vatum Pieriis ora rigantur aquis . 6 His next production was Lycidas ...
Pàgina 99
... daughter of Mr. Powel , a justice of the peace in Oxfordshire . He brought her to town with him , and expected all the advan- tages of a conjugal life . The lady , however , seems not much to have delighted in the pleasures of spare ...
... daughter of Mr. Powel , a justice of the peace in Oxfordshire . He brought her to town with him , and expected all the advan- tages of a conjugal life . The lady , however , seems not much to have delighted in the pleasures of spare ...
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