Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One Hundred and Fifty Writers from the Period of the Paston Letters to the Present DayWilliam Baptiste Scoones Harper & Bros., 1880 - 573 páginas |
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... poet's grace and wit , and most of all with his enthusiastic desire to visit Italy . On April 6 Milton had sent him a copy of ' Comus , ' with a letter announcing his immediate departure for the Con- tinent , to which the Provost ...
... poet's grace and wit , and most of all with his enthusiastic desire to visit Italy . On April 6 Milton had sent him a copy of ' Comus , ' with a letter announcing his immediate departure for the Con- tinent , to which the Provost ...
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... poet of the Hesperides are a series of plaintive notes to his rich uncle , Sir William Herrick ; and we may gather from them that this amiable relative's money paid for the piping of some of the most graceful lyrics in the English ...
... poet of the Hesperides are a series of plaintive notes to his rich uncle , Sir William Herrick ; and we may gather from them that this amiable relative's money paid for the piping of some of the most graceful lyrics in the English ...
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... Poet's ivy , as an ornament , perhaps , of lesser weight and trouble . But , Madam , these nightingales sung only in the spring ; it was the diversion of their youth ; as Ladies learn to sing , and play , when they are children , what ...
... Poet's ivy , as an ornament , perhaps , of lesser weight and trouble . But , Madam , these nightingales sung only in the spring ; it was the diversion of their youth ; as Ladies learn to sing , and play , when they are children , what ...
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... Poet as your servant , he became the most perfect Orator in the world . So that , not so much to have made verses , as not to give - over in time , leaves a man without excuse : the former presenting us with an oppor- tunity at least of ...
... Poet as your servant , he became the most perfect Orator in the world . So that , not so much to have made verses , as not to give - over in time , leaves a man without excuse : the former presenting us with an oppor- tunity at least of ...
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... poet of rising reputation , a Puritan like himself , and favourably recom- mended to him by the friendly family of Fairfax . John Milton to John Bradshaw . February 21 , 1652 . My Lord , -But that it would be an interruption to the ...
... poet of rising reputation , a Puritan like himself , and favourably recom- mended to him by the friendly family of Fairfax . John Milton to John Bradshaw . February 21 , 1652 . My Lord , -But that it would be an interruption to the ...
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