Lives of the English Poets: Abraham Cowley. Sir John Denham. John Milton. Samuel Butler. Earl of Rochester. Earl of Roscommon. Thomas Otway. Edmund Waller. John Dryden. John Pomfret. Earl of Dorset. George Stepney. John Philips. William Walsh. Edmund Smith. Richard Duke. William King. Thomas Sprat. Earl of Halifax. Thomas Parnell. Samuel Garth. Nicholas Rowe. Joseph Addison. John Hughes. John Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire. Matthew PriorOxford University Press, 1952 - English poetry |
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... sent her a letter , but had no answer ; he sent more with the same success . It could be alleged that letters miscarry ; he therefore dispatched a messenger , being by this time too angry to go himself . His messenger was sent back with ...
... sent her a letter , but had no answer ; he sent more with the same success . It could be alleged that letters miscarry ; he therefore dispatched a messenger , being by this time too angry to go himself . His messenger was sent back with ...
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... sent by their parents to the same end : yet ex- cusing only the eldest daughter , by reason of her bodily infirmity , and difficult utterance of speech ( which , to say truth , I doubt was the principal cause of excusing her ) , the ...
... sent by their parents to the same end : yet ex- cusing only the eldest daughter , by reason of her bodily infirmity , and difficult utterance of speech ( which , to say truth , I doubt was the principal cause of excusing her ) , the ...
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... sent to Caen , where the Protestants had then an university , and continued his studies under Bochart . Young Dillon , who was sent to study under Bochart , and who is represented as having already made great pro- ficiency in literature ...
... sent to Caen , where the Protestants had then an university , and continued his studies under Bochart . Young Dillon , who was sent to study under Bochart , and who is represented as having already made great pro- ficiency in literature ...
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