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Pàgina xxvii
... received its chief impetus from Dryden , had been materially assisted by Temple , and had been urged on to undisputed triumph by the genius of Steele , Addison , and Swift . A standard of good , working , pliant , serviceable prose was ...
... received its chief impetus from Dryden , had been materially assisted by Temple , and had been urged on to undisputed triumph by the genius of Steele , Addison , and Swift . A standard of good , working , pliant , serviceable prose was ...
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... received the news of his ill- success , not with so much firmness as might have been 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 ...
... received the news of his ill- success , not with so much firmness as might have been 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 ...
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... received with kindness by the learned and the great . Holstenius , the keeper of the Vatican library , who had resided three years at Oxford , introduced him to Cardinal Barberini ; and he , at a musical entertainment , waited for him ...
... received with kindness by the learned and the great . Holstenius , the keeper of the Vatican library , who had resided three years at Oxford , introduced him to Cardinal Barberini ; and he , at a musical entertainment , waited for him ...
Pàgina 73
... received more boys , to be boarded and instructed . Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small per- formance , on the man who hastens home , because his country- men are ...
... received more boys , to be boarded and instructed . Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small per- formance , on the man who hastens home , because his country- men are ...
Pàgina 78
... soon brought him to an act of oblivion and a firm league of peace . ' It were injurious to omit , that Milton afterwards received her father and her brothers in his own house , when they were distressed 78 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... soon brought him to an act of oblivion and a firm league of peace . ' It were injurious to omit , that Milton afterwards received her father and her brothers in his own house , when they were distressed 78 LIVES OF THE POETS.
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