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The Vision: Or, Hell, Purgatory and Paradise of Dante Alighieri - Page 233
by Dante Alighieri - 1892 - 496 pages
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The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

Aeschylus - 1831 - 352 pages
...explicuere frontem." So Tasso — " Non copre abito vil la nobil luce." And Milton — " courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds With smoky rafters, than in tap'stry halls, In courts of princes." Vide et Lucretius, lib. ii. 27, et Ariosto, cant. xiv. 1. 62. : ..1 •*-•...
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The Agamemnon of Æschylus, tr. [and] illustr. by a diss. on Grecian tragedy ...

Aeschylus - 1831 - 332 pages
...explicuere frontem." So Tasso — " Non copre abito vil la nobil luce." And Milton— " courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds With smoky rafters, than in tap'stry halls, In courts of princes." Vide et Lucretius, lib. ii. 27, et Ariosto, cant. xiv. 1. 62. _, But from the...
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Advice in the Pursuits of Literature, Containing Historical, Biographical ...

Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 312 pages
...safe Till further quest. lady. Shepherd, I take thy word, And trust thy honest offer'd courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds With smoky rafters,...tap'stry halls And courts of princes, where it first was nam'd, And yet is most pretended : in a place Less warranted than this, or less secure, I cannot be,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...320 Till further quest. LAD. Shepherd, I take thy word, And trust thy honest offer'd courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds "With smoky rafters,...tap'stry halls And courts of princes, where it first was nam'd, ncs And yet is most pretended : in a place Less warranted than this, or less secure, I cannot...
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Advice in the Pursuits of Literature: Containing Historical, Biographical ...

Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 304 pages
...safe Till further quest. Lady. Shepherd, I take thy word, And trust thy honest offer'd courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds With smoky rafters,...tap'stry halls And courts of princes, where it first was nam'd, And yet is most pretended : in a place Less warranted than this, or less secure, I cannot be,...
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Illustrations of Human Life, Volume 1

Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 386 pages
...reminded me of Milton's Shepherd: . ' I take thy word And trust thy honest offer'd courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds, With smoky rafters, than in tap'stried halls, And courts of princes, where it first was nam'd, And yet is most pretended.' " After...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...320 Till further quest. LAD. Shepherd, I take thy word, And trust thy honest offer'd courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds With smoky rafters,...tap'stry halls And courts of princes, where it first was nam'd, 325 And yet is most pretended : in a place Less warranted than this, or less secure, I cannot...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...320 Till further quest. LAD. Shepherd, I take thy word, And trust thy honest offer'd courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds With smoky rafters,...tap'stry halls And courts of princes, where it first was nam'd, 325 And yet is most pretended : in a place Less warranted than this, or less secure, I cannot...
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Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and ...

Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pages
...safe Till further quest. Lady. Shepherd, I take thy word, And trust thy honest ofier'd courtesy, Which heir valours, too, were of a rate ; And out they sallied at the gate. Few miles : in a place Less warranted than this, or less secure, I cannot be, that I should fear to change it....
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...safe Till further quest. Lad. Shepherd, I take thy word And trust thy honest oftcr'd courtesy, Which oe; Whatever doing, what can we suffer more, What can we Buffe top'stry halls In courts of princes, where it first was nam'd 325 And yet is most pretended : in a...
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