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Page 6
... easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country ...
... easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country ...
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... easily find his way back , when solitude should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but slenderly accommodated ; yet he soon obtained , by the interest of the Earl of St. Alban's and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the ...
... easily find his way back , when solitude should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but slenderly accommodated ; yet he soon obtained , by the interest of the Earl of St. Alban's and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the ...
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... easily adopted , nor can the attention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the subject thus originally indisposed to the reception of poetical embellishments , the writer brought little that could reconcile ...
... easily adopted , nor can the attention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the subject thus originally indisposed to the reception of poetical embellishments , the writer brought little that could reconcile ...
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... easily gains attention ; and he , who told every man that he was equal to his King , could hardly want an audience . That the performance of Salmasius was not dispersed with equal rapidity , or read with equal eagerness , is very ...
... easily gains attention ; and he , who told every man that he was equal to his King , could hardly want an audience . That the performance of Salmasius was not dispersed with equal rapidity , or read with equal eagerness , is very ...
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... easily be supposed to like , with every other skilful reader ; but I should not have ex- pected that Cowley , whose ideas of excellence were so dif- ferent from his own , would have had much of his approbation . His character of Dryden ...
... easily be supposed to like , with every other skilful reader ; but I should not have ex- pected that Cowley , whose ideas of excellence were so dif- ferent from his own , would have had much of his approbation . His character of Dryden ...
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