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Page 51
... present estimation the line that admits them , were in the time of Cowley little censured or avoided ; how often he used them , and with how bad an effect , at least to our ears , will appear by a passage , in which every reader will ...
... present estimation the line that admits them , were in the time of Cowley little censured or avoided ; how often he used them , and with how bad an effect , at least to our ears , will appear by a passage , in which every reader will ...
Page 297
... present not unsuitable to the magnificence of that splendid family ; and he quotes Moyle , as relating that forty pounds were paid by a musical society for the use of Alexander's Feast . In those days the oeconomy of government was yet ...
... present not unsuitable to the magnificence of that splendid family ; and he quotes Moyle , as relating that forty pounds were paid by a musical society for the use of Alexander's Feast . In those days the oeconomy of government was yet ...
Page 387
... present Majesty , and the present Government ; a performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excuse . The same year , being clerk of the closet to SPRAT 387.
... present Majesty , and the present Government ; a performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excuse . The same year , being clerk of the closet to SPRAT 387.
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