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Page 45
... poet , we should h Aubrey , who is usually distinguished by the title of the Antiquarian , is the author of " Monumenta Britannica , " and of a MS . Life of Milton , preserved in the Mus . Ash . Oxon . He was personally acquainted with ...
... poet , we should h Aubrey , who is usually distinguished by the title of the Antiquarian , is the author of " Monumenta Britannica , " and of a MS . Life of Milton , preserved in the Mus . Ash . Oxon . He was personally acquainted with ...
Page 47
... We may imagine with what pleasure a father would read the fol- lowing elegant compliment to his own pecu- liar talent from the pen of his accomplished and poetic son : Nec tu perge , precor , sacras contemnere Musas ; LIFE OF MILTON . 47.
... We may imagine with what pleasure a father would read the fol- lowing elegant compliment to his own pecu- liar talent from the pen of his accomplished and poetic son : Nec tu perge , precor , sacras contemnere Musas ; LIFE OF MILTON . 47.
Page 48
... poet child should be by you begot . My kindred blood is warm with kindred flame ; And the son treads his father's track to fame . Phoebus controlls us with a common sway ; To you commends his lyre , -to me his lay : Whole in each bosom ...
... poet child should be by you begot . My kindred blood is warm with kindred flame ; And the son treads his father's track to fame . Phoebus controlls us with a common sway ; To you commends his lyre , -to me his lay : Whole in each bosom ...
Page 51
... poetic merit . after this period , we find him engaged in controversy , as one of the writers of the pamphlet called Smectymnuus , against bishop Hall and archbishop Usher . He was a preacher at Duke's Place , and was nominated one of ...
... poetic merit . after this period , we find him engaged in controversy , as one of the writers of the pamphlet called Smectymnuus , against bishop Hall and archbishop Usher . He was a preacher at Duke's Place , and was nominated one of ...
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... poets : and by the poets of what has been called the silver age of Roman composition , it has not , as far as I can discover , been ever violated . It would seem that to a Greek or a Roman ear the immediate sequence of the strong con ...
... poets : and by the poets of what has been called the silver age of Roman composition , it has not , as far as I can discover , been ever violated . It would seem that to a Greek or a Roman ear the immediate sequence of the strong con ...
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