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Page 192
... writer and leisure in the reader . . . which is the cause that hath made me choose to write cer- tain brief notes , set down rather significantly than curiously , which I have called Essays . The word is late , but the thing is ancient ...
... writer and leisure in the reader . . . which is the cause that hath made me choose to write cer- tain brief notes , set down rather significantly than curiously , which I have called Essays . The word is late , but the thing is ancient ...
Page 207
... write the words , for which Lawes himself would write the music , for a masque to be given at the Earl's castle of Ludlow , on Michaelmas night ( September 29th ) , 1634. Milton would write the masque - but to his intensely serious mind ...
... write the words , for which Lawes himself would write the music , for a masque to be given at the Earl's castle of Ludlow , on Michaelmas night ( September 29th ) , 1634. Milton would write the masque - but to his intensely serious mind ...
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... writing , very straightforward and direct and sure ; but there is a kind of sweep to it , too , as if something sang ... write like this himself . The first books which he wrote in prison are not of much importance . His imagination was ...
... writing , very straightforward and direct and sure ; but there is a kind of sweep to it , too , as if something sang ... write like this himself . The first books which he wrote in prison are not of much importance . His imagination was ...
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THE BEGINNINGS OF LITERATURE IN ENGLAND | 3 |
CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES | 27 |
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