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Phæbus controlls us with a common sway ; To you commends his lyre , -- to me his lay ; i If I have refused to avail myself of Mr. Cowper's transla-tions , which are given to us by Mr. Hayley , I will hope that my conduct may not be ...
Phæbus controlls us with a common sway ; To you commends his lyre , -- to me his lay ; i If I have refused to avail myself of Mr. Cowper's transla-tions , which are given to us by Mr. Hayley , I will hope that my conduct may not be ...
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The conduct of the young Milton had , hitherto , been exempted from censure : distinguished , indeed , as it was , by zeal for study and contempt of pleasure , by obedience to his masters , and by piety to his parents , it might be ...
The conduct of the young Milton had , hitherto , been exempted from censure : distinguished , indeed , as it was , by zeal for study and contempt of pleasure , by obedience to his masters , and by piety to his parents , it might be ...
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Of his conduct , and the treatment which he experienced in his college , much has been asserted , and much been made the subject of dispute . His enemies in his own days , ( a son of bishop Hall is supposed to have been the immediate ...
Of his conduct , and the treatment which he experienced in his college , much has been asserted , and much been made the subject of dispute . His enemies in his own days , ( a son of bishop Hall is supposed to have been the immediate ...
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... and we are assured , by more than one passage in his own works , that he looked with no friendly eye either on the plan of education ? observed in the University , or on the learning and the conduct of its members . We may con.
... and we are assured , by more than one passage in his own works , that he looked with no friendly eye either on the plan of education ? observed in the University , or on the learning and the conduct of its members . We may con.
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... ( and this certainly is the most reprehensible circumstance in the conduct of his fable , ) he is only guilty of the same trespass against common sense , which his favourite Euripides has frequently committed .
... ( and this certainly is the most reprehensible circumstance in the conduct of his fable , ) he is only guilty of the same trespass against common sense , which his favourite Euripides has frequently committed .
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