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Page 13
... equal kind : Since my large heart my bounded fortunes wrong , - Accept , for all , the record of my song : O take the love , that strives to be express'd ! O take the thanks , that live within my breast ! And you sweet triflings of my ...
... equal kind : Since my large heart my bounded fortunes wrong , - Accept , for all , the record of my song : O take the love , that strives to be express'd ! O take the thanks , that live within my breast ! And you sweet triflings of my ...
Page 29
... equals at the hands of those courteous and learned men , the fellows of that college wherein I spent some years : who at my part- ing , after I had taken two degrees , as the manner is , signified many ways how much better it would ...
... equals at the hands of those courteous and learned men , the fellows of that college wherein I spent some years : who at my part- ing , after I had taken two degrees , as the manner is , signified many ways how much better it would ...
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... Comus . These compositions seem to be separated by nearly equal intervals , as well with respect to the time , as with reference to the power of their poetic . When the poet asks whether the object of LIFE OF MILTON . 37.
... Comus . These compositions seem to be separated by nearly equal intervals , as well with respect to the time , as with reference to the power of their poetic . When the poet asks whether the object of LIFE OF MILTON . 37.
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... equal among the latin poets of his age and his country . May , the continuator and imitator of Lucan ; and Cowley , whose taste and thought are English and metaphysical while his verse walks upon Roman feet , will never , as I am ...
... equal among the latin poets of his age and his country . May , the continuator and imitator of Lucan ; and Cowley , whose taste and thought are English and metaphysical while his verse walks upon Roman feet , will never , as I am ...
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... equal in merit , the fifth , written in the author's twentieth year on the return of spring , and the sixth , addressed in his twenty - first year to his friend Deodati , seem to be entitled to the praise of superior excellence . In ...
... equal in merit , the fifth , written in the author's twentieth year on the return of spring , and the sixth , addressed in his twenty - first year to his friend Deodati , seem to be entitled to the praise of superior excellence . In ...
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