Poets and Puritans: By T.R. Glover ...Methuen & Company, Limited, 1923 - 323 pages |
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... person in vertuous and gentle dis- cipline : Which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible and pleasing , being coloured with an historicall fiction , the which the most part of men delight to read , rather for variety of matter ...
... person in vertuous and gentle dis- cipline : Which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible and pleasing , being coloured with an historicall fiction , the which the most part of men delight to read , rather for variety of matter ...
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... person of Cyrus , and the Persians , fashioned a governement , such as might best be . " The apology is a pleasant one from a professed Platonist , who avows that he is following Xenophon to please his age . It has been suggested that ...
... person of Cyrus , and the Persians , fashioned a governement , such as might best be . " The apology is a pleasant one from a professed Platonist , who avows that he is following Xenophon to please his age . It has been suggested that ...
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... person of Guion , brings him in with his palmer through the cave of Mammon , and the bower of earthly bliss , that he might see and know , and yet abstain . " 1 Guyon hesitates indeed , so near he comes to being Drawne with the powre of ...
... person of Guion , brings him in with his palmer through the cave of Mammon , and the bower of earthly bliss , that he might see and know , and yet abstain . " 1 Guyon hesitates indeed , so near he comes to being Drawne with the powre of ...
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... person in an easy chair with a smattering of science . Our critics tell us to - day that we must dismiss Milton's " fable , " that his symbols represent nothing - nothing at all . But if we are to get anything from a poet , we have not ...
... person in an easy chair with a smattering of science . Our critics tell us to - day that we must dismiss Milton's " fable , " that his symbols represent nothing - nothing at all . But if we are to get anything from a poet , we have not ...
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... persons , many of them foreigners , came to see him - Dryden among them . They found him sitting “ in a grey coarse Cloth Coat at the Door of his House , in warm sunny Weather , to enjoy the fresh Air , " or it might be , " up one pair ...
... persons , many of them foreigners , came to see him - Dryden among them . They found him sitting “ in a grey coarse Cloth Coat at the Door of his House , in warm sunny Weather , to enjoy the fresh Air , " or it might be , " up one pair ...
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