The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - English poetry |
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... virtues . At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged in transacting things of real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his letters ...
... virtues . At Paris , as secretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged in transacting things of real importance with real men and real women , and at that time did not much employ his thoughts upon phantoms of gallantry . Some of his letters ...
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... virtue , his retreat was cowardice . He then took upon himself the character of physician , still , according to Sprat , with intention " to dissemble the main design of his coming over ; " and , as Mr. Wood relates , " complying with ...
... virtue , his retreat was cowardice . He then took upon himself the character of physician , still , according to Sprat , with intention " to dissemble the main design of his coming over ; " and , as Mr. Wood relates , " complying with ...
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... virtue made it innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . Those were the reasons that made him to follow the violent inclination of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his former business , had still called upon ...
... virtue made it innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . Those were the reasons that made him to follow the violent inclination of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his former business , had still called upon ...
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... virtue and of wit it will be solicitously asked , if he now was happy . Let them peruse one of his letters accidentally preserved by Peck , which I recommend to the consideration of all that may hereafter pant for solitude . " TO DR ...
... virtue and of wit it will be solicitously asked , if he now was happy . Let them peruse one of his letters accidentally preserved by Peck , which I recommend to the consideration of all that may hereafter pant for solitude . " TO DR ...
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... virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too scholastic , they ...
... virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in them too scholastic , they ...
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