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... difficulties vanished at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroick poems , only because it is not the first . BUTLER BUTLER . OF the great author of Hudibras there MILTON 203.
... difficulties vanished at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroick poems , only because it is not the first . BUTLER BUTLER . OF the great author of Hudibras there MILTON 203.
Page 207
Samuel Johnson Arthur Waugh. BUTLER . OF the great author of Hudibras there is a life prefixed to the later editions of his poem , by an unknown writer , and therefore of disputable authority ; and some account is incidentally given by ...
Samuel Johnson Arthur Waugh. BUTLER . OF the great author of Hudibras there is a life prefixed to the later editions of his poem , by an unknown writer , and therefore of disputable authority ; and some account is incidentally given by ...
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... . She died in 1651 . 11 Of Cople Hoo , near Bedford . Luke was a stringent presby- terian ; and suggested certain traits in the portrait of Hudibras . VOL . I. P of Cromwell's officers . Here he observed so much of BUTLER 209.
... . She died in 1651 . 11 Of Cople Hoo , near Bedford . Luke was a stringent presby- terian ; and suggested certain traits in the portrait of Hudibras . VOL . I. P of Cromwell's officers . Here he observed so much of BUTLER 209.
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... Hudibras , 15 which , as Prior relates , was made known at Court by the taste and influence of the Earl of Dorset . When it was known , it was necessarily admired : the king 12 It would appear from his writings that Butler must have ...
... Hudibras , 15 which , as Prior relates , was made known at Court by the taste and influence of the Earl of Dorset . When it was known , it was necessarily admired : the king 12 It would appear from his writings that Butler must have ...
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