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... Queen ; in which he very early took delight to read , till , by feeling the charms of verse , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , some- times remembered , and perhaps sometimes for- gotten ...
... Queen ; in which he very early took delight to read , till , by feeling the charms of verse , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , some- times remembered , and perhaps sometimes for- gotten ...
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... Queen to Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's minority . * He was a candidate ...
... Queen to Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's minority . * He was a candidate ...
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... Queen's lands as afforded him an ample income . REGwis ad you evitqso & to By the lovers of virtue and of wit it will be solicitously asked , if he now was happy . Let them peruse one of his letters accidentally pre- served by Peck ...
... Queen's lands as afforded him an ample income . REGwis ad you evitqso & to By the lovers of virtue and of wit it will be solicitously asked , if he now was happy . Let them peruse one of his letters accidentally pre- served by Peck ...
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... queen , thy travelling throne , And bid it to put on ; For long though cheerful is the way , And life , alas ! allows but one ill winter's day . In the same ode , celebrating the power of the Muse , he gives her prescience , or , in ...
... queen , thy travelling throne , And bid it to put on ; For long though cheerful is the way , And life , alas ! allows but one ill winter's day . In the same ode , celebrating the power of the Muse , he gives her prescience , or , in ...
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... He was entrusted by the Queen with a message to the King ; and , by whatever means , so far softened the ferocity of Hugh Peters , that by his intercession admission was D procured . Of the King's condescension he has given an DENHAM . 21.
... He was entrusted by the Queen with a message to the King ; and , by whatever means , so far softened the ferocity of Hugh Peters , that by his intercession admission was D procured . Of the King's condescension he has given an DENHAM . 21.
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