The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... death of Mr. King , the son of Sir John King , secretary for Ireland in the time of Elizabeth , James , and Charles . King was much a favourite at Cambridge , and many of the wits joined to do honour to his memory . Milton's acquaint ...
... death of Mr. King , the son of Sir John King , secretary for Ireland in the time of Elizabeth , James , and Charles . King was much a favourite at Cambridge , and many of the wits joined to do honour to his memory . Milton's acquaint ...
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... death of his mother set him at li- berty to travel , for which he obtained his father's consent , and Sir Henry Wotton's directions ; with the celebrated precept of prudence , i pensieri stretti , ed il viso sciolto ; thoughts close ...
... death of his mother set him at li- berty to travel , for which he obtained his father's consent , and Sir Henry Wotton's directions ; with the celebrated precept of prudence , i pensieri stretti , ed il viso sciolto ; thoughts close ...
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... came home , after an absence of a year and three months . At his return he heard of the death of his friend Charles Diodati ; a man whom it is reasonable to suppose of great merit , since he was thought by 14 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
... came home , after an absence of a year and three months . At his return he heard of the death of his friend Charles Diodati ; a man whom it is reasonable to suppose of great merit , since he was thought by 14 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
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... death , when , finding his mur- derers condemned by the Presbyterians , he wrote a treatise to justify it , and to compose the minds of the people . He made some ' Remarks on the Articles of Peace between Ormond and the Irish Rebels ...
... death , when , finding his mur- derers condemned by the Presbyterians , he wrote a treatise to justify it , and to compose the minds of the people . He made some ' Remarks on the Articles of Peace between Ormond and the Irish Rebels ...
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... death , to pop into the hands of the grave bishop that attended him , as a special relique of his saintly exercises , a prayer stolen word for word from the mouth of a heathen woman praying to a heathen god ? ' The papers which the king ...
... death , to pop into the hands of the grave bishop that attended him , as a special relique of his saintly exercises , a prayer stolen word for word from the mouth of a heathen woman praying to a heathen god ? ' The papers which the king ...
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.