Lives of the English Sacred Poets, Volume 2Parker, 1839 - 376 pages |
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... songs of Herbert sound harshly upon the ear . In the former volume , my inquiries led me among books for- gotten by all but the antiquary and the diligent student of our literature ; and the sympathy of the heart was awakened by the ...
... songs of Herbert sound harshly upon the ear . In the former volume , my inquiries led me among books for- gotten by all but the antiquary and the diligent student of our literature ; and the sympathy of the heart was awakened by the ...
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... songs and odes . " The foreign idioms in which Comus abounds show that Milton's reading was not confined to classical authors . He had already begun with avidity and delight to feast on Dante and Petrarch , and not even the transparent ...
... songs and odes . " The foreign idioms in which Comus abounds show that Milton's reading was not confined to classical authors . He had already begun with avidity and delight to feast on Dante and Petrarch , and not even the transparent ...
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... song . From Rome he proceeded to Naples , in company , as he writes , with a " certain recluse , " to whom he owed his introduction to the accomplished Manso , the biographer and friend of Tasso . Various unsuccessful attempts have been ...
... song . From Rome he proceeded to Naples , in company , as he writes , with a " certain recluse , " to whom he owed his introduction to the accomplished Manso , the biographer and friend of Tasso . Various unsuccessful attempts have been ...
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... common topics , Warton observes , are recommended by a novelty of elegant expression ; some passages wander * Second Defence of the People , p . 384 , ed . Burnet . far beyond the bounds of bucolic song , and are JOHN MILTON . 15.
... common topics , Warton observes , are recommended by a novelty of elegant expression ; some passages wander * Second Defence of the People , p . 384 , ed . Burnet . far beyond the bounds of bucolic song , and are JOHN MILTON . 15.
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Robert Aris Willmott. far beyond the bounds of bucolic song , and are in his own original style of the more sublime poetry . Cowper thought it equal to any of Virgil's Bucolics . On his arrival in London he hired a lodging in St. Bride's ...
Robert Aris Willmott. far beyond the bounds of bucolic song , and are in his own original style of the more sublime poetry . Cowper thought it equal to any of Virgil's Bucolics . On his arrival in London he hired a lodging in St. Bride's ...
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