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... honour of his country by an Epistle to Boileau . He published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the College Exercise , and ended with the " Nut ...
... honour of his country by an Epistle to Boileau . He published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the College Exercise , and ended with the " Nut ...
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... honour , says his ad- mirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated first at Kilkenny , and afterwards at Dublin , his father having some military employment that ...
... honour , says his ad- mirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated first at Kilkenny , and afterwards at Dublin , his father having some military employment that ...
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... upon both those plays the honour of her presence ; and when she died , soon after , Congreve testified his gratitude by a despicable effusion of elegiac pas- toral ; a composition in which all is unnatural , 22 CONGREVE .
... upon both those plays the honour of her presence ; and when she died , soon after , Congreve testified his gratitude by a despicable effusion of elegiac pas- toral ; a composition in which all is unnatural , 22 CONGREVE .
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... honoured by the adverse party might naturally expect to be advanced when his friends returned to power , and he was ... honours were yet far greater than his profits . Every writer mentioned him with respect ; and , among other testi ...
... honoured by the adverse party might naturally expect to be advanced when his friends returned to power , and he was ... honours were yet far greater than his profits . Every writer mentioned him with respect ; and , among other testi ...
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... honour , that to have been once a schoolmaster , is the only reproach which all the perspicacity of malice , animated by wit , has ever fixed upon his private life . When he first engaged in the study of physic , he inquired , as he ...
... honour , that to have been once a schoolmaster , is the only reproach which all the perspicacity of malice , animated by wit , has ever fixed upon his private life . When he first engaged in the study of physic , he inquired , as he ...
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