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... character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the College Exercise , and ended with the " Nut - brown Maid . " The battle of Ramillies soon afterwards ( in 1706 ) excited him to another effort of poetry . On this ...
... character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the College Exercise , and ended with the " Nut - brown Maid . " The battle of Ramillies soon afterwards ( in 1706 ) excited him to another effort of poetry . On this ...
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... character . By some mistake of the Queen's orders , the court of France had been disgusted ; and Bolingbroke says in his letter , " Dear Mat , hide the nakedness of thy country , and give the best turn thy fertile brain will furnish ...
... character . By some mistake of the Queen's orders , the court of France had been disgusted ; and Bolingbroke says in his letter , " Dear Mat , hide the nakedness of thy country , and give the best turn thy fertile brain will furnish ...
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... character and familiar practices . He lived at a time when the rage of party detected all which it was any man's interest to hide ; and , as little ill is heard of Prior , it is certain that not much was known . He was not afraid of ...
... character and familiar practices . He lived at a time when the rage of party detected all which it was any man's interest to hide ; and , as little ill is heard of Prior , it is certain that not much was known . He was not afraid of ...
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... character suffers an abatement , it must be from the disproportion of his rhymes , which have not always sufficient consonance , and from the admission of broken lines into his " Solomon ; " but perhaps he thought , like Cowley , that ...
... character suffers an abatement , it must be from the disproportion of his rhymes , which have not always sufficient consonance , and from the admission of broken lines into his " Solomon ; " but perhaps he thought , like Cowley , that ...
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... character of Foresight was then common . Dryden calculated nativities ; both Cromwell and King William had their ... characters . This , however , was received with more benevolence than any other of his works , and still continues to be ...
... character of Foresight was then common . Dryden calculated nativities ; both Cromwell and King William had their ... characters . This , however , was received with more benevolence than any other of his works , and still continues to be ...
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