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Page 5
... soon obtained , by the interest of the Earl of St. Alban's and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the Queen's lands as afforded him an ample income . By the lovers of virtue and of wit it will be solicitously asked , if he now was ...
... soon obtained , by the interest of the Earl of St. Alban's and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the Queen's lands as afforded him an ample income . By the lovers of virtue and of wit it will be solicitously asked , if he now was ...
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... soon the market fails , Your sex lives faster than the males , And if to measure age's span , The sober Julian were th ' account of man , Whilst you live by the fleet Gregorian . CLEIVELAND . Of enormous and disgusting hyperboles ...
... soon the market fails , Your sex lives faster than the males , And if to measure age's span , The sober Julian were th ' account of man , Whilst you live by the fleet Gregorian . CLEIVELAND . Of enormous and disgusting hyperboles ...
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... soon grows wearisome . Cowley delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to men- tion the ancients , he might have found it full- blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ...
... soon grows wearisome . Cowley delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to men- tion the ancients , he might have found it full- blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ...
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... soon resigned that charge , and re- dice ; but was very often plundered by game - treated to Oxford , where , in 1643 , he published procured . Of the King's condescension he uncertain ; a . to these compositions . No author ever kept ...
... soon resigned that charge , and re- dice ; but was very often plundered by game - treated to Oxford , where , in 1643 , he published procured . Of the King's condescension he uncertain ; a . to these compositions . No author ever kept ...
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... soon after the accession of King James , he was knighted , and made a judge ; but , his con- stitution being too weak for business , he retired before any disreputable compliances became ne - any exceptions can be made , they are very ...
... soon after the accession of King James , he was knighted , and made a judge ; but , his con- stitution being too weak for business , he retired before any disreputable compliances became ne - any exceptions can be made , they are very ...
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