The Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 4 pages |
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... the Lord Jermyn , afterwards Earl of St. Alban's , and was employed in such correspondence as the royal cause required , and particularly in cyphering and decyphering the letters that passed between the King and Queen ; an 1 * COWLEY .
... the Lord Jermyn , afterwards Earl of St. Alban's , and was employed in such correspondence as the royal cause required , and particularly in cyphering and decyphering the letters that passed between the King and Queen ; an 1 * COWLEY .
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... Earl of Arlington , from April to December , in 1650 , are preserved in " Miscellanea Aulica , " a collection of papers published by Brown . These letters , being written like those of other men whose minds are more on things than words ...
... Earl of Arlington , from April to December , in 1650 , are preserved in " Miscellanea Aulica , " a collection of papers published by Brown . These letters , being written like those of other men whose minds are more on things than words ...
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... Earl of St. Alban's and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the Queen's lands as afforded him an ample income . By the lovers of virtue and of wit it will be solicitously asked , if he now was happy . Let them peruse one of his ...
... Earl of St. Alban's and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the Queen's lands as afforded him an ample income . By the lovers of virtue and of wit it will be solicitously asked , if he now was happy . Let them peruse one of his ...
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... Earl of Pembroke . Of the next years of his life there is no account . At the Restoration he obtained that which many missed the re- ward of his loyalty ; being made surveyor of the King's build- ings , and dignified with the order of ...
... Earl of Pembroke . Of the next years of his life there is no account . At the Restoration he obtained that which many missed the re- ward of his loyalty ; being made surveyor of the King's build- ings , and dignified with the order of ...
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... Earl of Bridgewater's sons and daughter . The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe ; but we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of bor- rowing from Homer : a quo ceu fonte perenni Vatum Pieriis ora rigantur aquis . His next ...
... Earl of Bridgewater's sons and daughter . The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe ; but we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of bor- rowing from Homer : a quo ceu fonte perenni Vatum Pieriis ora rigantur aquis . His next ...
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