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... expected " from fo great a man . " What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley difcovered , cannot be known . He that miffes his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his ...
... expected " from fo great a man . " What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley difcovered , cannot be known . He that miffes his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his ...
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... expected , while " others for their money carried away moft " places , he retired discontented into Surrey . " " He was now , " fays the courtly Sprat , 66 weary of the vexations and formalities of " an active condition . He had been ...
... expected , while " others for their money carried away moft " places , he retired discontented into Surrey . " " He was now , " fays the courtly Sprat , 66 weary of the vexations and formalities of " an active condition . He had been ...
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... expected ; yet to him Milton owed his introduction to Manfo marquis of Villa , who had been before the patron of Taffo . Manfo was enough delighted with his accomplishments to honour him with a forry diftich , in which he commends him ...
... expected ; yet to him Milton owed his introduction to Manfo marquis of Villa , who had been before the patron of Taffo . Manfo was enough delighted with his accomplishments to honour him with a forry diftich , in which he commends him ...
Page 148
... expected the Paradife Loft . He published the fame year two more pam- phlets , upon the fame queftion . To one of his antagonists , who affirms that he was vomited out of the univerfity , he answers , in general terms ; " The Fellows of ...
... expected the Paradife Loft . He published the fame year two more pam- phlets , upon the fame queftion . To one of his antagonists , who affirms that he was vomited out of the univerfity , he answers , in general terms ; " The Fellows of ...
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... expected all the advan- tages of a conjugal life . The lady , however , feems not much to have delighted in the pleasures of fpare diet and hard study ; for , as Philips relates , " having for a month led " a philofophic life , after ...
... expected all the advan- tages of a conjugal life . The lady , however , feems not much to have delighted in the pleasures of fpare diet and hard study ; for , as Philips relates , " having for a month led " a philofophic life , after ...
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