Jones's Cabinet Edition of British Poets, Volume 4Jones & Company, 1829 |
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... Italian in every line , with the Spaniard pro- miscuously , with the French alternately ; as those who have read the Alarique , the Pucelle , or any of their later poems , will agree with me . besides this , they write in Alexandrines ...
... Italian in every line , with the Spaniard pro- miscuously , with the French alternately ; as those who have read the Alarique , the Pucelle , or any of their later poems , will agree with me . besides this , they write in Alexandrines ...
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... Italy and Spain , Which never did those monsters entertain . The Wolf , the Bear , the Boar , can there advance No native claim of just inheritance ; And self - preserving laws , severe in show , May guard their fences from th ...
... Italy and Spain , Which never did those monsters entertain . The Wolf , the Bear , the Boar , can there advance No native claim of just inheritance ; And self - preserving laws , severe in show , May guard their fences from th ...
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... Italian king ; [ bring , By long possession all the land is mine ; You strangers come with your intruding line To share my sceptre , which you call to join . You plead like hir , an ancient pedigree , And claim a peaceful seat by Fate's ...
... Italian king ; [ bring , By long possession all the land is mine ; You strangers come with your intruding line To share my sceptre , which you call to join . You plead like hir , an ancient pedigree , And claim a peaceful seat by Fate's ...
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... Italian painters do when they would draw a Nero or a Caligula , though they have not seen the man , they can help their imagination by a state of him , and find out the colouring from Suetonius and Tacitus . Truth is , you might have ...
... Italian painters do when they would draw a Nero or a Caligula , though they have not seen the man , they can help their imagination by a state of him , and find out the colouring from Suetonius and Tacitus . Truth is , you might have ...
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... Italy . His native soil was the four parts o ' th ' earth ; All Europe was too narrow for his birth . A young apostle , and , with reverence may I speak it , inspired with gift of tongues as they . Nature gave him , a child , what men ...
... Italy . His native soil was the four parts o ' th ' earth ; All Europe was too narrow for his birth . A young apostle , and , with reverence may I speak it , inspired with gift of tongues as they . Nature gave him , a child , what men ...
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