The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, 1787 |
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... death . " 66 This is no favourable reprefentation , yet even in this not much wrong can be difcovered . How far he complied with the men in power , is to be enquired before he can be blamed . It is not faid that he told them any fecrets ...
... death . " 66 This is no favourable reprefentation , yet even in this not much wrong can be difcovered . How far he complied with the men in power , is to be enquired before he can be blamed . It is not faid that he told them any fecrets ...
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... death of Oliver , he returned into France , where he resumed his former station , and staid till the Restoration . " He continued , " fays his biographer , " under " these bonds till the general deliverance ; " it is there- fore to be ...
... death of Oliver , he returned into France , where he resumed his former station , and staid till the Restoration . " He continued , " fays his biographer , " under " these bonds till the general deliverance ; " it is there- fore to be ...
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... death of Julius Cæfar , by Thomas May , an eminent poet and hiftorian , who flourished in the reigns of James and Charles I , and of whom a life is given in the Biographia Britannica . the the Mastership of the Savoy ; " but he loft 16 ...
... death of Julius Cæfar , by Thomas May , an eminent poet and hiftorian , who flourished in the reigns of James and Charles I , and of whom a life is given in the Biographia Britannica . the the Mastership of the Savoy ; " but he loft 16 ...
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... death of mine , I fear , Will ominous to her appear : When found in every other part , Her facrifice is found without an heart . For the laft tempeft of my death Shall figh out that too , with my breath . That the chaos was harmonifed ...
... death of mine , I fear , Will ominous to her appear : When found in every other part , Her facrifice is found without an heart . For the laft tempeft of my death Shall figh out that too , with my breath . That the chaos was harmonifed ...
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... this truth reciprocally run , The fun's heaven's coalery , and coals our fun , Death , a Voyage : No family Ere rigg'd a foul for heaven's discovery , With whom more venturers might boldly dare Venture their stakes With 34 COWLEY .
... this truth reciprocally run , The fun's heaven's coalery , and coals our fun , Death , a Voyage : No family Ere rigg'd a foul for heaven's discovery , With whom more venturers might boldly dare Venture their stakes With 34 COWLEY .
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