LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... obtained an order to be created " Doctor of Physick , which being done to his mind , ( whereby he gained the " ill - will of some of his friends ) , he went into France again , having made a " copy of verses on Oliver's death . " . This ...
... obtained an order to be created " Doctor of Physick , which being done to his mind , ( whereby he gained the " ill - will of some of his friends ) , he went into France again , having made a " copy of verses on Oliver's death . " . This ...
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... obtained , by the interest of the Earl of St. Albans and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the Queen's lands as afforded him an ample income . By the lover of virtue and of wit it will be solicitously asked , if he now was happy ...
... obtained , by the interest of the Earl of St. Albans and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the Queen's lands as afforded him an ample income . By the lover of virtue and of wit it will be solicitously asked , if he now was happy ...
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... obtained its due com- mendation . Nothing is far - sought , or hard - laboured ; but all is easy without feebleness , and familiar without grossness . It has been observed by Felton , in his Essay on the Classicks , that Cowley was ...
... obtained its due com- mendation . Nothing is far - sought , or hard - laboured ; but all is easy without feebleness , and familiar without grossness . It has been observed by Felton , in his Essay on the Classicks , that Cowley was ...
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... obtained permission to live in quiet , he supported himself so honourably by chamber - practice , that , soon after the accession of King James , he was knighted and made a Judge ; but , his constitution being too weak for business , he ...
... obtained permission to live in quiet , he supported himself so honourably by chamber - practice , that , soon after the accession of King James , he was knighted and made a Judge ; but , his constitution being too weak for business , he ...
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... obtained praise , but not excited wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice dis- cernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton ...
... obtained praise , but not excited wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice dis- cernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton ...
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