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... Numbers , at 6d . forming 2 elegant volumes , containing the whole of what is sually printed in 14 volumes . Weekly Nos . price 6d . or Parts , 1s . each , beautifully and closely printed , in a clear , bold type , double columns , 8vo ...
... Numbers , at 6d . forming 2 elegant volumes , containing the whole of what is sually printed in 14 volumes . Weekly Nos . price 6d . or Parts , 1s . each , beautifully and closely printed , in a clear , bold type , double columns , 8vo ...
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... numbers ; ' and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume ...
... numbers ; ' and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume ...
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... numbers in th ' unequal field , His men discouraged , and himself expell'd ; Let him for succour sue from place to place , ' Torn from his subjects and his son's embrace . First let him see his friends in battle slain , And their ...
... numbers in th ' unequal field , His men discouraged , and himself expell'd ; Let him for succour sue from place to place , ' Torn from his subjects and his son's embrace . First let him see his friends in battle slain , And their ...
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... numbers were inevitably disappointed ; | introduced by Suckling. " his desire had been for some days past , and did still very vehemently continue , to retire himself to some of the American plantations , and to forsake this world for ...
... numbers were inevitably disappointed ; | introduced by Suckling. " his desire had been for some days past , and did still very vehemently continue , to retire himself to some of the American plantations , and to forsake this world for ...
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Samuel Johnson. great numbers were inevitably disappointed ; | introduced by Suckling , perhaps every genera- and Cowley found his reward very tediously tion of poets has been teased . delayed . He had been promised by both Charles the ...
Samuel Johnson. great numbers were inevitably disappointed ; | introduced by Suckling , perhaps every genera- and Cowley found his reward very tediously tion of poets has been teased . delayed . He had been promised by both Charles the ...
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