Selected WritingsCarcanet, 1984 - 294 pages |
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Page 139
... things to pass for their enemies , and seen an effect so directly contrary to all their own counsels and cruelties ; as the one could never have hoped for themselves ; and the other never have succeeded ; if no such opposition had ever ...
... things to pass for their enemies , and seen an effect so directly contrary to all their own counsels and cruelties ; as the one could never have hoped for themselves ; and the other never have succeeded ; if no such opposition had ever ...
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... things as depend only upon likeli- hood . For things , whereof the perfect knowledge is taken away from us by Antiquity , must be described in History , as Geographers in their Maps described those Countries , whereof as yet there is ...
... things as depend only upon likeli- hood . For things , whereof the perfect knowledge is taken away from us by Antiquity , must be described in History , as Geographers in their Maps described those Countries , whereof as yet there is ...
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... things . She cheerfully supporteth what she rears ; Assisted by no strengths , but are her own , Some note of which each varied Pillar bears , By which as proper titles she is known , Time's witness , Herald of Antiquity , The light of ...
... things . She cheerfully supporteth what she rears ; Assisted by no strengths , but are her own , Some note of which each varied Pillar bears , By which as proper titles she is known , Time's witness , Herald of Antiquity , The light of ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Metrical translations from the History of | 21 |
A farewell to false Love | 27 |
Copyright | |
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