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... perhaps willing enough to leave his birth unsettled , in hope , like Don Quixote , that the historian of his actions might find him some illustrious alliance . He is supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of ...
... perhaps willing enough to leave his birth unsettled , in hope , like Don Quixote , that the historian of his actions might find him some illustrious alliance . He is supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of ...
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... perhaps scarcely seen anything equal , was formed the grand alliance against Louis , which at last did not produce effects proportionate to the magnifi- cence of the transaction . The conduct of Prior , in this splendid initiation into ...
... perhaps scarcely seen anything equal , was formed the grand alliance against Louis , which at last did not produce effects proportionate to the magnifi- cence of the transaction . The conduct of Prior , in this splendid initiation into ...
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... perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a man dis- countenanced and deprived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses omitted to bring his tribute of tuneful sorrow . An emulation of elegy ...
... perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a man dis- countenanced and deprived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses omitted to bring his tribute of tuneful sorrow . An emulation of elegy ...
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... Perhaps it was about this time that he changed his party , for he voted for the impeachment of those lords who had persuaded the king to the Partition Treaty , a treaty in which he himself had been ministerially employed . A great part ...
... Perhaps it was about this time that he changed his party , for he voted for the impeachment of those lords who had persuaded the king to the Partition Treaty , a treaty in which he himself had been ministerially employed . A great part ...
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... perhaps Chloe , while he was absent from his house , stole his plate and ran away , as was related by a woman who had been his servant . Of his propensity to sordid converse , I have seen an account so seriously ridiculous , that it ...
... perhaps Chloe , while he was absent from his house , stole his plate and ran away , as was related by a woman who had been his servant . Of his propensity to sordid converse , I have seen an account so seriously ridiculous , that it ...
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