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... supposed was written by Mr. Longueville , the father ; but the con- trary is to be inferred from a subsequent paffage , wherein the author laments that he had neither fuch an acquaintance nor interest with Mr. Longueville as to procure ...
... supposed was written by Mr. Longueville , the father ; but the con- trary is to be inferred from a subsequent paffage , wherein the author laments that he had neither fuch an acquaintance nor interest with Mr. Longueville as to procure ...
Page 293
... supposed to refide in the parliament . What can be concluded of the lower claffes of the people , when in one of the parliaments fummoned by Cromwell it was feriously pro- pofed , that all the records in the Tower fhould be burnt , that ...
... supposed to refide in the parliament . What can be concluded of the lower claffes of the people , when in one of the parliaments fummoned by Cromwell it was feriously pro- pofed , that all the records in the Tower fhould be burnt , that ...
Page 331
... supposed to want ; or that the attention of the poet and * In Rofcius Anglicanus , by Downes the prompter , p . 34 , we learn , that it was the character of the King in Mrs. Behn's Forced Marriage , or The Jealous Bridegroom , which Mr ...
... supposed to want ; or that the attention of the poet and * In Rofcius Anglicanus , by Downes the prompter , p . 34 , we learn , that it was the character of the King in Mrs. Behn's Forced Marriage , or The Jealous Bridegroom , which Mr ...
Page 380
... supposed to dictate without the help of malice . " We were to be go- " verned by janizaries inftead of parliaments , " and are in danger from a worse plot than " that of the fifth of November ; then , if " the Lords and Commons had been ...
... supposed to dictate without the help of malice . " We were to be go- " verned by janizaries inftead of parliaments , " and are in danger from a worse plot than " that of the fifth of November ; then , if " the Lords and Commons had been ...
Page 406
... supposed to have faults and beauties of the fame kind with the reft . The Sacred Poems , however , deferve particular regard ; they were the work of Waller's declining life , of thofe hours in which he looked upon the fame and the folly ...
... supposed to have faults and beauties of the fame kind with the reft . The Sacred Poems , however , deferve particular regard ; they were the work of Waller's declining life , of thofe hours in which he looked upon the fame and the folly ...
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