The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... whigs from court and from power , gratify at once the Queen and the people . There was now a call for writers , who might con vey intelligence of past abuses , and shew the waste of public money , the unreasonable conduct of the allies ...
... whigs from court and from power , gratify at once the Queen and the people . There was now a call for writers , who might con vey intelligence of past abuses , and shew the waste of public money , the unreasonable conduct of the allies ...
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... whigs returned to power , was aggravated to a charge of high trea- son ; though , as Prior remarks in his imperfect an- swer to the report of the Committee of Secrecy , no treaty ever was made without private interviews and preliminary ...
... whigs returned to power , was aggravated to a charge of high trea- son ; though , as Prior remarks in his imperfect an- swer to the report of the Committee of Secrecy , no treaty ever was made without private interviews and preliminary ...
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... whigs , under whose patronage he first entered the world , he became a tory so ardent and deter- minate , that he did not willingly consort with men of different opinions . He was one of the sixteen tories who met weekly , and agreed to ...
... whigs , under whose patronage he first entered the world , he became a tory so ardent and deter- minate , that he did not willingly consort with men of different opinions . He was one of the sixteen tories who met weekly , and agreed to ...
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... whigs , some intercession was used lest Congreve should be dis- placed , the Earl of Oxford made this answer : " Non obtusa adeo gestamus pectora Pœni , Nec tam aversus equos Tyria sol jungit ab urbe . " He that was thus honoured by the ...
... whigs , some intercession was used lest Congreve should be dis- placed , the Earl of Oxford made this answer : " Non obtusa adeo gestamus pectora Pœni , Nec tam aversus equos Tyria sol jungit ab urbe . " He that was thus honoured by the ...
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... whigs utterly desperate , he corresponded at once with the two expectants of the Crown , and kept , as has been ... Whig Examiner was published Oct. 12 , 1711 ; and Swift's first Examiner , on the 10th of the fol- lowing November - R ...
... whigs utterly desperate , he corresponded at once with the two expectants of the Crown , and kept , as has been ... Whig Examiner was published Oct. 12 , 1711 ; and Swift's first Examiner , on the 10th of the fol- lowing November - R ...
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