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... thing that was calculated to degrade him . It is at least certain , that , during his retirement , he was not idle ; several of his poems , and some works which are lost , having been com- posed while he was thus living in seclusion ...
... thing that was calculated to degrade him . It is at least certain , that , during his retirement , he was not idle ; several of his poems , and some works which are lost , having been com- posed while he was thus living in seclusion ...
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... things , a sweeter tone of sentiment , or a finer flush in the colours of language , than in this Rubens of English poetry . His fancy teems exuberantly in minuteness of circumstance , like a fertile soil send- ing bloom and verdure ...
... things , a sweeter tone of sentiment , or a finer flush in the colours of language , than in this Rubens of English poetry . His fancy teems exuberantly in minuteness of circumstance , like a fertile soil send- ing bloom and verdure ...
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... thing in his machinery to set bounds to his power of enchantment . Yet , delicious as his poetry is , his story , considered as a romance , is obscure , intricate , and monotonous . He translated entire cantos from Tasso , but adopted ...
... thing in his machinery to set bounds to his power of enchantment . Yet , delicious as his poetry is , his story , considered as a romance , is obscure , intricate , and monotonous . He translated entire cantos from Tasso , but adopted ...
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... things accounted by their showes , and nothing esteemed of , that is not delightfull and pleasing to commune sence . For this cause is Xenophon preferred before Plato , for that the one , in the exquisite depth of his iudgement , formed ...
... things accounted by their showes , and nothing esteemed of , that is not delightfull and pleasing to commune sence . For this cause is Xenophon preferred before Plato , for that the one , in the exquisite depth of his iudgement , formed ...
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... things each morne and eventyde : Thereby a christall streame did gently play , Which from a sacred fountaine welled forth alway . XXXV . Arrived there , the litle house they fill , Ne looke for entertainement , where none was ; Rest is ...
... things each morne and eventyde : Thereby a christall streame did gently play , Which from a sacred fountaine welled forth alway . XXXV . Arrived there , the litle house they fill , Ne looke for entertainement , where none was ; Rest is ...
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Página 29 - A GENTLE Knight was pricking on the plaine, Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruell markes of many a bloody fielde ; Yet armes till that time did he never wield : His angry steede did chide his foming bitt, As much disdayning to the curbe to yield : Full jolly knight he seemd, and faire did sitt, As one for knightly giusts and fierce encounters fitt.
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