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... starve the gods till they confessed What furies did oppress his sleeping soul . These plays went through two editions ; the last printed in 1656 . The following passage from a similar bard is as precious D 2 THE EARLY DRAMA . 35.
... starve the gods till they confessed What furies did oppress his sleeping soul . These plays went through two editions ; the last printed in 1656 . The following passage from a similar bard is as precious D 2 THE EARLY DRAMA . 35.
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Isaac Disraeli. The following passage from a similar bard is as precious . The king in the play exclaims , By all the ancient gods of Rome and Greece , I love my daughter ! - -better than my niece ! If any one should ask the reason why ...
Isaac Disraeli. The following passage from a similar bard is as precious . The king in the play exclaims , By all the ancient gods of Rome and Greece , I love my daughter ! - -better than my niece ! If any one should ask the reason why ...
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... passage . Wakefield , in his edition of Gray , is very liable to this censure . This kind of literary amusement is not de- spicable ; there are few men of letters who have not been in the habit of marking parallel passages , or tracing ...
... passage . Wakefield , in his edition of Gray , is very liable to this censure . This kind of literary amusement is not de- spicable ; there are few men of letters who have not been in the habit of marking parallel passages , or tracing ...
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... his " Ode to Spring " has " The attic warbler POURS HER THROAT . " Wakefield in his " Commentary " has a copious passage on this poetical diction . He conceives it to be " an admirable improvement of the Greek 132 POETICAL IMITATIONS.
... his " Ode to Spring " has " The attic warbler POURS HER THROAT . " Wakefield in his " Commentary " has a copious passage on this poetical diction . He conceives it to be " an admirable improvement of the Greek 132 POETICAL IMITATIONS.
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Isaac Disraeli. condescended to point out to this minutest of critics the following passage in Milton , " When the SCOURGE Inexorably , and the TORTURING hour Calls us to Penance . " Par . Lost , B. II . v . 90 . Gray in his " Ode to ...
Isaac Disraeli. condescended to point out to this minutest of critics the following passage in Milton , " When the SCOURGE Inexorably , and the TORTURING hour Calls us to Penance . " Par . Lost , B. II . v . 90 . Gray in his " Ode to ...
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