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A very particular story of his escape is told by Richardson in his Memoirs , which he received from Pope , as delivered by Betterton , who might have heard if from Davenant . In the war between the King and Parliament , Davenant was ...
A very particular story of his escape is told by Richardson in his Memoirs , which he received from Pope , as delivered by Betterton , who might have heard if from Davenant . In the war between the King and Parliament , Davenant was ...
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This was impudently opposed by those who were employed in the Italian opera ; and , what cannot be told without indignation , the intruders had such interest with the duke of Shrewsbury , then lord cham- berlain , who had married an ...
This was impudently opposed by those who were employed in the Italian opera ; and , what cannot be told without indignation , the intruders had such interest with the duke of Shrewsbury , then lord cham- berlain , who had married an ...
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A strange story is told of danger to which he was intentionally exposed in a leaky ship , to gratify some resentful jealousy of the king , whose health he therefore would never permit at his table , till he saw himself in a safer place ...
A strange story is told of danger to which he was intentionally exposed in a leaky ship , to gratify some resentful jealousy of the king , whose health he therefore would never permit at his table , till he saw himself in a safer place ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of Oxford world's classics Issues 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Contributor | Arthur Waugh |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1952 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2009 |
| Length | 472 pages |
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