Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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... publick acclamations , is readily con- fessed . Wit and literature were on the side of the Court : and who that solicited favour or fashion would venture to praise the defender of the regicides ? All that he him- self could think his ...
... publick acclamations , is readily con- fessed . Wit and literature were on the side of the Court : and who that solicited favour or fashion would venture to praise the defender of the regicides ? All that he him- self could think his ...
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... publick in commotion , he honestly appeared among the friends of the church . He lived to his seventy - ninth year , and died May 20 , 1713 . Burnet is not very favourable to his memory ; but he and Burnet were old rivals . On some publick ...
... publick in commotion , he honestly appeared among the friends of the church . He lived to his seventy - ninth year , and died May 20 , 1713 . Burnet is not very favourable to his memory ; but he and Burnet were old rivals . On some publick ...
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... publick , that before it was reprinted it rose to five times its price . When he returned to England ( in 1702 ) , with a meanness of appearance which gave testimony of the difficulties to which he had been reduced , he found his old ...
... publick , that before it was reprinted it rose to five times its price . When he returned to England ( in 1702 ) , with a meanness of appearance which gave testimony of the difficulties to which he had been reduced , he found his old ...
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