Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... relates , irrecoverably a poet * . Such are the accidents , which , some- times remembered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that particular designation of mind and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is ...
... relates , irrecoverably a poet * . Such are the accidents , which , some- times remembered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that particular designation of mind and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is ...
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... relate that he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar " . ' This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate 5 a wonder3 . It is surely ...
... relate that he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar " . ' This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate 5 a wonder3 . It is surely ...
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... relates , ' complying with the men then in power ( which was much taken notice of by the royal party ) , he obtained an order to be created Doctor of Physick , which being done to his mind ( whereby he gained the ill - will of some of ...
... relates , ' complying with the men then in power ( which was much taken notice of by the royal party ) , he obtained an order to be created Doctor of Physick , which being done to his mind ( whereby he gained the ill - will of some of ...
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... relate what I fear is true , that Milton was one of the last students in either university that suffered the publick indignity of corporal correction 5 . It was , in the violence of controversial hostility , objected to him that he was ...
... relate what I fear is true , that Milton was one of the last students in either university that suffered the publick indignity of corporal correction 5 . It was , in the violence of controversial hostility , objected to him that he was ...
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... relates with great luxuriance the compen- sation which the pleasures of the theatre afford him ' . Plays were therefore only criminal when they were acted by academicks . He went to the university with a design of entering into 1 Wood ...
... relates with great luxuriance the compen- sation which the pleasures of the theatre afford him ' . Plays were therefore only criminal when they were acted by academicks . He went to the university with a design of entering into 1 Wood ...
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