Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language, with a Biography of Each Poet, &c, Volume 3H. Washbourne, 1845 |
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... dying day . " The same writer adds , " He was an exact mathematician , a curious calculator of nativities , a general - read scholar , a thro ' - paced philologist , and one that understood the surveying of lands well ; " and though " a ...
... dying day . " The same writer adds , " He was an exact mathematician , a curious calculator of nativities , a general - read scholar , a thro ' - paced philologist , and one that understood the surveying of lands well ; " and though " a ...
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... died in 1639 , ( very near the time of his own calculation , ) and was buried in Christ - Church Ca- thedral , where his bust may be seen , as well as a short Latin inscription , his own composition , on a monument erected by the care ...
... died in 1639 , ( very near the time of his own calculation , ) and was buried in Christ - Church Ca- thedral , where his bust may be seen , as well as a short Latin inscription , his own composition , on a monument erected by the care ...
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... dying pain , Yet living still : Self - loving pride , Looks coyly strange , Will , reason's guide , Desire of change , And last of all Blind Fancy's fire , False Beauty's thrall , That binds Desire : * All these I offer to Disdain , By ...
... dying pain , Yet living still : Self - loving pride , Looks coyly strange , Will , reason's guide , Desire of change , And last of all Blind Fancy's fire , False Beauty's thrall , That binds Desire : * All these I offer to Disdain , By ...
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... died in 1643 . His poetical version of Ovid's Metamorphoses , once much admired , was originally published in 1627 , with the first book of Virgil's Æneid , and twice afterwards . His Tragedy , called " Christ's Passion , ” translated ...
... died in 1643 . His poetical version of Ovid's Metamorphoses , once much admired , was originally published in 1627 , with the first book of Virgil's Æneid , and twice afterwards . His Tragedy , called " Christ's Passion , ” translated ...
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... dying , her own epicedium sings . Extract from an Address " Deo Opt . Max . " at the end of the same volume , OH ! who hath tasted of thy clemency In greater measure , or more oft than I ? My grateful verse thy goodness shall display ...
... dying , her own epicedium sings . Extract from an Address " Deo Opt . Max . " at the end of the same volume , OH ! who hath tasted of thy clemency In greater measure , or more oft than I ? My grateful verse thy goodness shall display ...
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