Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... leaving Oxford in 1858 Birkbeck Hill joined his father in the school , though he did not take orders as he had originally intended when he went up to Oxford . In the January of the next year he was married to Annie Scott , the daughter ...
... leaving Oxford in 1858 Birkbeck Hill joined his father in the school , though he did not take orders as he had originally intended when he went up to Oxford . In the January of the next year he was married to Annie Scott , the daughter ...
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... leave off thy gunning and stay here ; I will bring thee into practice . " Brief Lives , i . 299. See post , WALLER , 86 . 4 999 Sprat writes : - ' Some have en- deavoured to bring his loyalty in question upon occasion of a few lines in ...
... leave off thy gunning and stay here ; I will bring thee into practice . " Brief Lives , i . 299. See post , WALLER , 86 . 4 999 Sprat writes : - ' Some have en- deavoured to bring his loyalty in question upon occasion of a few lines in ...
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... leave curiosity often unsatisfied . What he did not tell cannot , however , now be known . I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other ...
... leave curiosity often unsatisfied . What he did not tell cannot , however , now be known . I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other ...
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... leave the trotting whipster , and prefer Our profound Vulcan ' bove that waggoner . For wants he heat , or light ? or would have store Of both ? ' tis here : and what can suns give more ? Nay , what's the sun but , in a different name ...
... leave the trotting whipster , and prefer Our profound Vulcan ' bove that waggoner . For wants he heat , or light ? or would have store Of both ? ' tis here : and what can suns give more ? Nay , what's the sun but , in a different name ...
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... leaves his learning behind it ; the moralist , the politician , and the critick , mingle their influence even in this airy frolick of genius . Sprat , ' was the first occasion of his entering into business . It brought him into the ...
... leaves his learning behind it ; the moralist , the politician , and the critick , mingle their influence even in this airy frolick of genius . Sprat , ' was the first occasion of his entering into business . It brought him into the ...
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