Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 - English poetry |
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... earl of Dorset , celebrated for patronage of genius , found him by chance , as Burnet relates , reading Horace , and was so well pleased with his proficiency , that he undertook the care and cost of his academical education . He entered ...
... earl of Dorset , celebrated for patronage of genius , found him by chance , as Burnet relates , reading Horace , and was so well pleased with his proficiency , that he undertook the care and cost of his academical education . He entered ...
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... earl of Bathe and lord Granville of Potheridge , had lately become extinct . Being now high in the Queen's favour , he ( 1712 ) was appointed comptroller of the household , and a privy counsellor ; and to his other honours was added the ...
... earl of Bathe and lord Granville of Potheridge , had lately become extinct . Being now high in the Queen's favour , he ( 1712 ) was appointed comptroller of the household , and a privy counsellor ; and to his other honours was added the ...
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... Earl of Macclesfield was prosecuting this affair , his wife was , on the 10th of January 1697-8 , delivered of a son , and the Earl Rivers , by appearing to consider him as his own , left none any reason to doubt of the sincerity of her ...
... Earl of Macclesfield was prosecuting this affair , his wife was , on the 10th of January 1697-8 , delivered of a son , and the Earl Rivers , by appearing to consider him as his own , left none any reason to doubt of the sincerity of her ...
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