The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, 1787 |
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... hope , by the honest desire of giving use- ful pleasure . In this minute kind of Hiftory , the fucceffion of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that fome of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have ...
... hope , by the honest desire of giving use- ful pleasure . In this minute kind of Hiftory , the fucceffion of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that fome of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have ...
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... hope , by feeing him fortunate , and partaking his profperity . We know at least , from Sprat's account , that he al- ways acknowledged her care , and justly paid the dues of filial gratitude . In the window of his mother's apartment ...
... hope , by feeing him fortunate , and partaking his profperity . We know at least , from Sprat's account , that he al- ways acknowledged her care , and justly paid the dues of filial gratitude . In the window of his mother's apartment ...
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... hope , or the gloominefs of defpair , and dreffes his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis fometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and fometimes in gems lafting as her virtues . At Paris , as fecretary to Lord Jermin , he was en- gaged in ...
... hope , or the gloominefs of defpair , and dreffes his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis fometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and fometimes in gems lafting as her virtues . At Paris , as fecretary to Lord Jermin , he was en- gaged in ...
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... hope , that great numbers were inevitably difappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tediously delayed . He had been promised by both Charles the firft and fecond * By May's Poem , we are here to understand a continuation of ...
... hope , that great numbers were inevitably difappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tediously delayed . He had been promised by both Charles the firft and fecond * By May's Poem , we are here to understand a continuation of ...
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... hope to recover my late hurt fo farre within five or " fix days ( though it be uncertain yet whether I fhall ever recover it ) as to walk about again . And then , methinks , you and I and the Dean might be very " merry upon S. Anne's ...
... hope to recover my late hurt fo farre within five or " fix days ( though it be uncertain yet whether I fhall ever recover it ) as to walk about again . And then , methinks , you and I and the Dean might be very " merry upon S. Anne's ...
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