The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... morning . His father appears to have been very solicitous about his edu- cation ; for he was instructed at first by private tui- tion under the care of Thomas Young , who was afterwards chaplain to the English merchants at Hamburgh ...
... morning . His father appears to have been very solicitous about his edu- cation ; for he was instructed at first by private tui- tion under the care of Thomas Young , who was afterwards chaplain to the English merchants at Hamburgh ...
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... morning , I suppose before his mind was disturbed with common business ; and that he poured out with great fluency his unpremeditated verse . Versification , free , like his , from the distresses of rhyme , must , by a work so long , be ...
... morning , I suppose before his mind was disturbed with common business ; and that he poured out with great fluency his unpremeditated verse . Versification , free , like his , from the distresses of rhyme , must , by a work so long , be ...
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... morning , and dictated in the day , sitting obliquely in an elbow - chair , with his leg thrown over the arm . Fortune appears not to have had much of his care . In the civil wars he lent his personal estate to F 2 THE LIFE OF MILTON . 57.
... morning , and dictated in the day , sitting obliquely in an elbow - chair , with his leg thrown over the arm . Fortune appears not to have had much of his care . In the civil wars he lent his personal estate to F 2 THE LIFE OF MILTON . 57.
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... morning comes , a morning gloomy with rain and wind , he walks into the dark trackless woods , falls asleep by some murmuring water , and with melancholy enthusiasm expects some dream of prognostication , or some music played by aërial ...
... morning comes , a morning gloomy with rain and wind , he walks into the dark trackless woods , falls asleep by some murmuring water , and with melancholy enthusiasm expects some dream of prognostication , or some music played by aërial ...
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... morning - dreams inspire ; Yet softer claims the melting heart engage , Her youth laborious , and her blameless age ; Her's the mild merits of domestic life , The patient sufferer , and the faithful wife . Thus graced with humble ...
... morning - dreams inspire ; Yet softer claims the melting heart engage , Her youth laborious , and her blameless age ; Her's the mild merits of domestic life , The patient sufferer , and the faithful wife . Thus graced with humble ...
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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.