The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, 1787 |
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... confidence of those who attended the King , and amongst others of Lord Falkland , whose notice caft a luftre on all to whom it was extended . About About the time when Oxford was furrendered to the parliament 8 COWLEY .
... confidence of those who attended the King , and amongst others of Lord Falkland , whose notice caft a luftre on all to whom it was extended . About About the time when Oxford was furrendered to the parliament 8 COWLEY .
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... Whose what and where in difputation is , If I should call me any thing , fhould mifs . I fum the years and me , and find me not Debtor to th ' old , nor creditor to th ' new , That cannot fay , my thanks I have forgot , Nor truft I this ...
... Whose what and where in difputation is , If I should call me any thing , fhould mifs . I fum the years and me , and find me not Debtor to th ' old , nor creditor to th ' new , That cannot fay , my thanks I have forgot , Nor truft I this ...
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... whose names little will be gained by an enumeration- of smaller poets , that have left scarce a corner of the ifland not dignified either by rhyme , or blank verse , " COOPER'S HILL , " if it be malicioufly infpected , will not be found ...
... whose names little will be gained by an enumeration- of smaller poets , that have left scarce a corner of the ifland not dignified either by rhyme , or blank verse , " COOPER'S HILL , " if it be malicioufly infpected , will not be found ...
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... whose names the first letters made the celebrated word Smeymnuus , gave their An- fwer . Of this Answer a Confutation was attempted by the learned Uber ; and to the Confutation Milton pub- lifhed a Reply , intituled , Of Prelatical ...
... whose names the first letters made the celebrated word Smeymnuus , gave their An- fwer . Of this Answer a Confutation was attempted by the learned Uber ; and to the Confutation Milton pub- lifhed a Reply , intituled , Of Prelatical ...
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... at least equal to his other powers ; Milton , whose warmest advocates must allow , that he never fpared any afperity of reproach or bru- tality of infolence . But But the charge itself feems to be falfe ; for 130 MILTON .
... at least equal to his other powers ; Milton , whose warmest advocates must allow , that he never fpared any afperity of reproach or bru- tality of infolence . But But the charge itself feems to be falfe ; for 130 MILTON .
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