The lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Rivington, 1820 |
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... death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner , + near The difficulty of settling Prior's birth - place is great . In the register of his College he is called , at his admission by the President , Matthew Prior , of Winburn , in ...
... death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner , + near The difficulty of settling Prior's birth - place is great . In the register of his College he is called , at his admission by the President , Matthew Prior , of Winburn , in ...
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... death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers ; perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a man discountenanced and deprived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses ...
... death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers ; perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a man discountenanced and deprived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses ...
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... death.Tis dread- ful ! : How reverend is the face of this tall pile , Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads , To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof , By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable , Looking tranquillity ...
... death.Tis dread- ful ! : How reverend is the face of this tall pile , Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads , To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof , By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable , Looking tranquillity ...
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... death of the Marquis of Blandford , this was his song : And now the winds , which had so long been still , Began the swelling air with sighs to fill : The water - nymphs , who motionless remain'd , Like images of ice , while she ...
... death of the Marquis of Blandford , this was his song : And now the winds , which had so long been still , Began the swelling air with sighs to fill : The water - nymphs , who motionless remain'd , Like images of ice , while she ...
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... death . To the Revd . Mr. BROOME . At Pulham , near Harlestone [ By Beccles Bag . ] Nor Suffolke . Dr. Sir , I INTENDED to write to you on this melancholy subject , the death of Mr. Fenton , before yrs came ; but stay'd to have informed ...
... death . To the Revd . Mr. BROOME . At Pulham , near Harlestone [ By Beccles Bag . ] Nor Suffolke . Dr. Sir , I INTENDED to write to you on this melancholy subject , the death of Mr. Fenton , before yrs came ; but stay'd to have informed ...
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