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Page xxvi
... reason to complain . The fact is , not that they have paid me too little , but that I have written too much . " The Lives were soon published in a separate edition ; when , for a few corrections , he was presented with another hun- dred ...
... reason to complain . The fact is , not that they have paid me too little , but that I have written too much . " The Lives were soon published in a separate edition ; when , for a few corrections , he was presented with another hun- dred ...
Page xxvi
... reason to one already possesses said poets in complain . The fact is , not that they large letter ) therefore I could not have paid me too little , but that í possibly give ten guineas for this have written too much . " The Lives ...
... reason to one already possesses said poets in complain . The fact is , not that they large letter ) therefore I could not have paid me too little , but that í possibly give ten guineas for this have written too much . " The Lives ...
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... reason why Cowley's father should not have been a grocer , and yet have held the freedom of the Stationers ' Company . James I was a cloth- worker . ' N. & 2. 7 S. iii . 438 . 8 suppressed , the omission of his name in the COWLEY LIVES ...
... reason why Cowley's father should not have been a grocer , and yet have held the freedom of the Stationers ' Company . James I was a cloth- worker . ' N. & 2. 7 S. iii . 438 . 8 suppressed , the omission of his name in the COWLEY LIVES ...
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... reason to suspect that his father was a sectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his son , and consequently left him to the care of his mother , whom Wood represents as struggling earnestly to procure him a literary ...
... reason to suspect that his father was a sectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his son , and consequently left him to the care of his mother , whom Wood represents as struggling earnestly to procure him a literary ...
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... we must march out of our cause itself , and dismantle that , as well as our towns and castles , of all the works and fortifications of wit and reason by which we defended it . ' for some days [ years ] past , and did COWLEY 9.
... we must march out of our cause itself , and dismantle that , as well as our towns and castles , of all the works and fortifications of wit and reason by which we defended it . ' for some days [ years ] past , and did COWLEY 9.
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