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Page 100
... 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 ...
Page 263
... publick ; and writing merely for money , was contented to get it by the nearest way . In 1680 , the Epistles of Ovid being translated by the poets of the time , among which one was the work of Dryden , and another of Dryden and Lord ...
... publick ; and writing merely for money , was contented to get it by the nearest way . In 1680 , the Epistles of Ovid being translated by the poets of the time , among which one was the work of Dryden , and another of Dryden and Lord ...
Page 403
... publick employment , he obtained ( in 1699 ) a pension of three hundred pounds a year , that he might be enabled to travel . He stayed a year at Blois , probably to learn the French language ; and then pro- ceeded in his journey to ...
... publick employment , he obtained ( in 1699 ) a pension of three hundred pounds a year , that he might be enabled to travel . He stayed a year at Blois , probably to learn the French language ; and then pro- ceeded in his journey to ...
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