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... common subject which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business , when ...
... common subject which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business , when ...
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... common duty of living in quiet , to be rewarded with the common right of pro- tection ; but this , which , when he skulked from the approach of his King , was perhaps more than he hoped , seems not to have satisfied him ; for no sooner ...
... common duty of living in quiet , to be rewarded with the common right of pro- tection ; but this , which , when he skulked from the approach of his King , was perhaps more than he hoped , seems not to have satisfied him ; for no sooner ...
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... common notions , and equal to common expectations ; such a state as affords plenty and tranquillity , without exclusion of intellectual pleasures . Perhaps no composition in our language has been oftener perused than Pomfret's Choice ...
... common notions , and equal to common expectations ; such a state as affords plenty and tranquillity , without exclusion of intellectual pleasures . Perhaps no composition in our language has been oftener perused than Pomfret's Choice ...
Contents
WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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