LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... reputation ; though , during the suppression of the theatres , it was sometimes privately acted with sufficient approbation . In 1643 , being now master of arts , he was , by the prevalence of the parlia ment , ejected from Cambridge ...
... reputation ; though , during the suppression of the theatres , it was sometimes privately acted with sufficient approbation . In 1643 , being now master of arts , he was , by the prevalence of the parlia ment , ejected from Cambridge ...
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... reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily believe to be undiffembled ; a man harraffed in one kingdom , and per- secuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights in cyphering ...
... reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily believe to be undiffembled ; a man harraffed in one kingdom , and per- secuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights in cyphering ...
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... reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators , than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of whom any remembrance can be said to remain , were Suckling , Waller , Denham , Cowley , Cleiveland , and Milton ...
... reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators , than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of whom any remembrance can be said to remain , were Suckling , Waller , Denham , Cowley , Cleiveland , and Milton ...
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... reputation , that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated censure ; and surely though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many parts de- serve at least that admiration which is due to great comprehension of knowledge ...
... reputation , that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated censure ; and surely though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many parts de- serve at least that admiration which is due to great comprehension of knowledge ...
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... reputation as to excite the common artifice by which envy degrades excellence . A report was spread , that the performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob ...
... reputation as to excite the common artifice by which envy degrades excellence . A report was spread , that the performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob ...
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