Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageG. Olms, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 163
... lord Parker to continue him 2. He had now affluence ; but such is human life , that he had it when his declining ... Lord Cowper made Hughes Secre- tary a month after he read the manu- script of The Siege of Damascus , and when Lord ...
... lord Parker to continue him 2. He had now affluence ; but such is human life , that he had it when his declining ... Lord Cowper made Hughes Secre- tary a month after he read the manu- script of The Siege of Damascus , and when Lord ...
Page 279
... Lord Chamberlain ; and he was forced to recompense his repulse by a subscription , which is said to have been so liberally bestowed , that what he called oppression ended in profit. that any man was ever made a rogue by being present at ...
... Lord Chamberlain ; and he was forced to recompense his repulse by a subscription , which is said to have been so liberally bestowed , that what he called oppression ended in profit. that any man was ever made a rogue by being present at ...
Page 375
... Lord Tyrconnel and of his mother were sufficiently industrious to publish his weaknesses , which were indeed very numerous , and nothing was forgotten that might make him either hateful or ridiculous . It cannot but be imagined that ...
... Lord Tyrconnel and of his mother were sufficiently industrious to publish his weaknesses , which were indeed very numerous , and nothing was forgotten that might make him either hateful or ridiculous . It cannot but be imagined that ...
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