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Page 79
... afterwards received her father and her brothers in his own house , when they were distressed , with other Royalists . He published about the same time his Areopagitica , a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of un- licensed ...
... afterwards received her father and her brothers in his own house , when they were distressed , with other Royalists . He published about the same time his Areopagitica , a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of un- licensed ...
Page 177
... afterwards with other poems . Waller was not one of those idolaters of praise who cultivate their minds at the expence of their fortunes . Rich as he was by inheritance , he took care early to grow richer by marrying Mrs. Banks , a ...
... afterwards with other poems . Waller was not one of those idolaters of praise who cultivate their minds at the expence of their fortunes . Rich as he was by inheritance , he took care early to grow richer by marrying Mrs. Banks , a ...
Page 417
... afterwards published a translation of the greater part of the Fourth Georgick upon Bees ; after which , says Dryden , my latter swarm is scarcely worth the hiving . About the same time he composed the arguments prefixed to the several ...
... afterwards published a translation of the greater part of the Fourth Georgick upon Bees ; after which , says Dryden , my latter swarm is scarcely worth the hiving . About the same time he composed the arguments prefixed to the several ...
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