The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... Duke of Dorset ; it began with the Col- lege 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 occasion he had fewer or less ...
... Duke of Dorset ; it began with the Col- lege 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 occasion he had fewer or less ...
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... Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It is related by Boyer , that the intention was to have joined Prior in the commission , but that Shrewsbury refused to be as- sociated with a man so meanly born , Prior there- fore ...
... Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It is related by Boyer , that the intention was to have joined Prior in the commission , but that Shrewsbury refused to be as- sociated with a man so meanly born , Prior there- fore ...
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... Duke of Shrewsbury was still at Paris , Bolingbroke wrote to Prior thus : " Monsieur . de Torcy has a confidence in you : make use of it , once for all , upon this occasion , and convince him thoroughly , that we must give a different ...
... Duke of Shrewsbury was still at Paris , Bolingbroke wrote to Prior thus : " Monsieur . de Torcy has a confidence in you : make use of it , once for all , upon this occasion , and convince him thoroughly , that we must give a different ...
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... Duke of Shrewsbury was absent , but he could not remember which ; an answer which perplexed them , because it supplied no accusation against either . " Could any thing be more absurd , " says he , " or more inhuman , than to propose to ...
... Duke of Shrewsbury was absent , but he could not remember which ; an answer which perplexed them , because it supplied no accusation against either . " Could any thing be more absurd , " says he , " or more inhuman , than to propose to ...
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... Duke of Marlborough ; but on occasion of another year of success , think- ing himself qualified to give more instruction , be again wrote a poem of " Advice to a Weaver of Tapestry . " Steele was then publishing the " Tat- ler ; " and ...
... Duke of Marlborough ; but on occasion of another year of success , think- ing himself qualified to give more instruction , be again wrote a poem of " Advice to a Weaver of Tapestry . " Steele was then publishing the " Tat- ler ; " and ...
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