Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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Page 141
... afterwards , he found them destroyed , to stop windows , and owns that they hardly deserved a better fate . He was afterwards admitted into the family of the Countess of Kent , where he had the use of a library ; and so much recommended ...
... afterwards , he found them destroyed , to stop windows , and owns that they hardly deserved a better fate . He was afterwards admitted into the family of the Countess of Kent , where he had the use of a library ; and so much recommended ...
Page 177
... afterwards with other poems . Waller was not one of those idolaters of praise who cultivate their minds at the expence of their fortunes . Rich as he was by inheritance , he took care early to grow richer by marrying Mrs. Banks , a ...
... afterwards with other poems . Waller was not one of those idolaters of praise who cultivate their minds at the expence of their fortunes . Rich as he was by inheritance , he took care early to grow richer by marrying Mrs. Banks , a ...
Page 184
... afterwards to have been engaged against the parlia- ment . Fenton , with equal probability , believes that his attempt to promote the royal cause arose from his sensibility of the king's tenderness . Whitlock says nothing of his ...
... afterwards to have been engaged against the parlia- ment . Fenton , with equal probability , believes that his attempt to promote the royal cause arose from his sensibility of the king's tenderness . Whitlock says nothing of his ...
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