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Page 81
... kings sate still with awful eye , As if they surely knew their sovrain Lord was nigh . The following stanza is , not quite so un- exceptionable and pure ; but its errors are venial , and it closes beautifully— * Who now hath quite ...
... kings sate still with awful eye , As if they surely knew their sovrain Lord was nigh . The following stanza is , not quite so un- exceptionable and pure ; but its errors are venial , and it closes beautifully— * Who now hath quite ...
Page 108
... King , one of its fellows , and a son of sir John King , Knt . secretary for Ireland in the reigns of Elizabeth James and Charles . This young man , whose vessel ' foundered , as she was sailing from Chester to Ireland , e From a letter ...
... King , one of its fellows , and a son of sir John King , Knt . secretary for Ireland in the reigns of Elizabeth James and Charles . This young man , whose vessel ' foundered , as she was sailing from Chester to Ireland , e From a letter ...
Page 115
... king enjoin her obedience . Accept there- fore my congratulations , and allow me to return you my double thanks , on account both of your friendship and your profound skill . I had long indeed , in consequence of your arrangement , been ...
... king enjoin her obedience . Accept there- fore my congratulations , and allow me to return you my double thanks , on account both of your friendship and your profound skill . I had long indeed , in consequence of your arrangement , been ...
Page 128
... king , after mine own recess from Venice . " I should think , that your best line will be through the whole length of France to Marseilles , and thence by sea to Genoa , whence the passage into Tuscany is as diur- nal as a Gravesend ...
... king , after mine own recess from Venice . " I should think , that your best line will be through the whole length of France to Marseilles , and thence by sea to Genoa , whence the passage into Tuscany is as diur- nal as a Gravesend ...
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... king of Thessaly , is too well known to require a repetition of it . Mr. Warton has observed , before me , that Milton in this passage has imitated a beautiful chorus in the Alcestis . I wish however that Milton on this occasion ...
... king of Thessaly , is too well known to require a repetition of it . Mr. Warton has observed , before me , that Milton in this passage has imitated a beautiful chorus in the Alcestis . I wish however that Milton on this occasion ...
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