The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... live in quiet , he supported him- self so honourably by chamber - practice , that , soon after the accession of King James , he was knighted and made a judge ; but , his constitution being too weak for business , he retired before any ...
... live in quiet , he supported him- self so honourably by chamber - practice , that , soon after the accession of King James , he was knighted and made a judge ; but , his constitution being too weak for business , he retired before any ...
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... live and die an honest man . ' If he considered the Latin Secretary as ex- ercising any of the powers of government , he that had shared authority either with the parliament or Cromwell , might have forborne to talk very loudly of his ...
... live and die an honest man . ' If he considered the Latin Secretary as ex- ercising any of the powers of government , he that had shared authority either with the parliament or Cromwell , might have forborne to talk very loudly of his ...
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... lives in the world will sometimes have the succession of his practice broken and confused . Visitors , of whom Milton is represented to have had great numbers , will come and stay unseasonably ; business , of which every man has some ...
... lives in the world will sometimes have the succession of his practice broken and confused . Visitors , of whom Milton is represented to have had great numbers , will come and stay unseasonably ; business , of which every man has some ...
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... live with their own approbation , and justify their conduct to themselves . Prayer certainly was not thought superfluous by him , who represents our first parents as praying acceptably in the state of innocence , and efficaciously after ...
... live with their own approbation , and justify their conduct to themselves . Prayer certainly was not thought superfluous by him , who represents our first parents as praying acceptably in the state of innocence , and efficaciously after ...
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... live thus vile , the race of Heaven Thus trampled , thus expelled to suffer here Chains and these torments ? better these than worse , By my advice ; since fate inevitable Subdues us , and omnipotent decree , The victor's will . To ...
... live thus vile , the race of Heaven Thus trampled , thus expelled to suffer here Chains and these torments ? better these than worse , By my advice ; since fate inevitable Subdues us , and omnipotent decree , The victor's will . To ...
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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.