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... perhaps scarcely seen any thing equal , was formed the grand alliance against Louis , which at last did not produce effects proportionate to the magnificence of the transaction . The conduct of Prior in this splendid initiation into ...
... perhaps scarcely seen any thing equal , was formed the grand alliance against Louis , which at last did not produce effects proportionate to the magnificence of the transaction . The conduct of Prior in this splendid initiation into ...
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... Perhaps it was about this time that he changed his party ; for he voted for the impeachment of those lords who had persuaded the King to the Partition- treaty , a treaty in which he had himself been ministerially employed . A great part ...
... Perhaps it was about this time that he changed his party ; for he voted for the impeachment of those lords who had persuaded the King to the Partition- treaty , a treaty in which he had himself been ministerially employed . A great part ...
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... perhaps Chloe , while he was absent from his house , stole his plate , and ran away ; as was related by a woman who had been his servant . Of this propensity to sordid converse I have seen an account so seriously ridiculous , that it ...
... perhaps Chloe , while he was absent from his house , stole his plate , and ran away ; as was related by a woman who had been his servant . Of this propensity to sordid converse I have seen an account so seriously ridiculous , that it ...
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... Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it , or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided . And even if he should control his desire of immediate renown , and keep his work nine years ...
... Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it , or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided . And even if he should control his desire of immediate renown , and keep his work nine years ...
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... perhaps the best . His lines are weakened with expletives , and his rhymes are frequently imperfect . His petty poems are seldom worth the cost of criticism ; sometimes the thoughts are false , and sometimes common . In his verses on ...
... perhaps the best . His lines are weakened with expletives , and his rhymes are frequently imperfect . His petty poems are seldom worth the cost of criticism ; sometimes the thoughts are false , and sometimes common . In his verses on ...
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