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... W. 42 , Great Titchfield Street , W. King's Cross , N. RIGHTON , HASTINGS , MANCHESTER , BRISTOL , LIVERPOOL , PRESTON , and BIRMINGHAM . Noets . To face cover 2. ] A Cassell & Company's Magazines . NEW VOLUMES JUST COMMENCED . " ...
... W. 42 , Great Titchfield Street , W. King's Cross , N. RIGHTON , HASTINGS , MANCHESTER , BRISTOL , LIVERPOOL , PRESTON , and BIRMINGHAM . Noets . To face cover 2. ] A Cassell & Company's Magazines . NEW VOLUMES JUST COMMENCED . " ...
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... King Lear .. .. 109. Seven Discourses on Art 110. A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James II . .. 11. The ... King Henry IV . ( Part 1 ) .. 129. Lives of Pyrrhus , Camillus , & c . 130. Essays and Tales .. 131. Lives of Addison ...
... King Lear .. .. 109. Seven Discourses on Art 110. A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James II . .. 11. The ... King Henry IV . ( Part 1 ) .. 129. Lives of Pyrrhus , Camillus , & c . 130. Essays and Tales .. 131. Lives of Addison ...
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... King William , that he made him one of the gentlemen of his bedchamber ; and he is supposed to have passed some of the next years in the quiet cultivation of literature and poetry . The death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject ...
... King William , that he made him one of the gentlemen of his bedchamber ; and he is supposed to have passed some of the next years in the quiet cultivation of literature and poetry . The death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject ...
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... King William supplied copious materials for either verse or prose . His whole life had been action , and none ever denied him the resplendent qualities of steady resolution and personal courage . He was really in Prior's mind what he ...
... King William supplied copious materials for either verse or prose . His whole life had been action , and none ever denied him the resplendent qualities of steady resolution and personal courage . He was really in Prior's mind what he ...
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... king to the Partition Treaty , a treaty in which he himself had been ministerially employed . A great part of Queen Anne's reign was a time of war , in which there was little employment for negotiators , and Prior had , therefore ...
... king to the Partition Treaty , a treaty in which he himself had been ministerially employed . A great part of Queen Anne's reign was a time of war , in which there was little employment for negotiators , and Prior had , therefore ...
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Addison afterwards appear Atrides Battle of Ramillies beauties Binfield Blackmore Boileau Bolingbroke censure character Cibber composition Congreve considered contempt copies couplet criticism Curll declared delight Dennis desire diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Earl Earl of Oxford edition elegance endeavoured English poets Epistle epitaph Essay Essay on Criticism excellence fame faults favour friends friendship genius Halifax heroes Homer honour Iliad images imitation judgment kind King known labour language learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax mankind mind nature never numbers o'er opinion original performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise present printed Prior prose published readers reason remarks reputation RICHARD HAKLUYT ridicule SAMUEL JOHNSON satire says seems sometimes supposed Swift tell thought tion told translation verses versification virtue volume Warburton Westminster Abbey write written wrote