Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 108
... lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of Providence , yet grew old without any visible worship . In the distribution of his hours , there was no hour of prayer , either solitary , or with his household ...
... lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of Providence , yet grew old without any visible worship . In the distribution of his hours , there was no hour of prayer , either solitary , or with his household ...
Page 184
... lived with great splendour and hospitality ; and from time to time amused himself with poetry , in which he sometimes speaks of the rebels , and their usurpation , in the natural language of an honest man . At last it became necessary ...
... lived with great splendour and hospitality ; and from time to time amused himself with poetry , in which he sometimes speaks of the rebels , and their usurpation , in the natural language of an honest man . At last it became necessary ...
Page 195
... lived in exile ; for we are told that at Paris he lived in splendor , and was the only Englishman , except the Lord St. Albans , that kept a table . His unlucky plot compelled him to sell a thousand a year ; of the waste of the rest ...
... lived in exile ; for we are told that at Paris he lived in splendor , and was the only Englishman , except the Lord St. Albans , that kept a table . His unlucky plot compelled him to sell a thousand a year ; of the waste of the rest ...
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