Lives of the English PoetsCaasel et Cie, 1892 |
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... honour to their country . To this Godolphin replied that such abuses should in time be rectified ; and that , if a man could be found capable of the task then proposed , he should not want an ample recompense . Halifax then named ...
... honour to their country . To this Godolphin replied that such abuses should in time be rectified ; and that , if a man could be found capable of the task then proposed , he should not want an ample recompense . Halifax then named ...
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... honour on the other , to send it into the world without any dedication . " Human happiness has always its abatements ; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud . No sooner was Cato offered to the reader than it was ...
... honour on the other , to send it into the world without any dedication . " Human happiness has always its abatements ; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud . No sooner was Cato offered to the reader than it was ...
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... honours . It was censured as a party - play by a scholar of Oxford ; and defended in a favourable examination by Dr. Sewel . It was translated by Salvini into Italian , and acted at Florence ; and by the Jesuits of St. Omer's into Latin ...
... honours . It was censured as a party - play by a scholar of Oxford ; and defended in a favourable examination by Dr. Sewel . It was translated by Salvini into Italian , and acted at Florence ; and by the Jesuits of St. Omer's into Latin ...
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... honour , once gave me his opinion . " If I had set , " said he , " ten school- boys to write on the battle of Blenheim , and eight had brought me the angel , I should not have been surprised . " The opera of Rosamond , though it is ...
... honour , once gave me his opinion . " If I had set , " said he , " ten school- boys to write on the battle of Blenheim , and eight had brought me the angel , I should not have been surprised . " The opera of Rosamond , though it is ...
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... honour and to affluence , he was in two months illegitimated by the Parliament , and disowned by his mother , doomed to poverty and obscurity , and launched upon the ocean of life only that he might be swallowed by its quicksands , or ...
... honour and to affluence , he was in two months illegitimated by the Parliament , and disowned by his mother , doomed to poverty and obscurity , and launched upon the ocean of life only that he might be swallowed by its quicksands , or ...
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