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... expected all the advantages of a conjugal life . The lady , however , seems not much to have delighted in the plea- sures of spare diet and hard study ; for , as Philips relates , ' having for a month led a philosophical life , after ...
... expected all the advantages of a conjugal life . The lady , however , seems not much to have delighted in the plea- sures of spare diet and hard study ; for , as Philips relates , ' having for a month led a philosophical life , after ...
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... expected ample preferments ; and , that he might not be forgotten by his own fault , wrote a Song of Triumph . But this was a time of such general hope , that great numbers were inevitably disappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very ...
... expected ample preferments ; and , that he might not be forgotten by his own fault , wrote a Song of Triumph . But this was a time of such general hope , that great numbers were inevitably disappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very ...
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Samuel Johnson Robert Montagu. not with so much firmness as might have been expected from so great a man . ' What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley dis- covered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will never be as ...
Samuel Johnson Robert Montagu. not with so much firmness as might have been expected from so great a man . ' What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley dis- covered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will never be as ...
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Milton | 15 |
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