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... continued , " says his biographer , ". cal compositions , " The tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , " written when he was ten years old ; and " Constantia and Philetus , " written two years after . elegance of his conversation ...
... continued , " says his biographer , ". cal compositions , " The tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , " written when he was ten years old ; and " Constantia and Philetus , " written two years after . elegance of his conversation ...
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Samuel Johnson. " He continued , " says his biographer , " under graphia Britannica . - H . great numbers were inevitably disappointed ; and Cowley found his. " his desire had been for some days past , and did still very vehemently ...
Samuel Johnson. " He continued , " says his biographer , " under graphia Britannica . - H . great numbers were inevitably disappointed ; and Cowley found his. " his desire had been for some days past , and did still very vehemently ...
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... continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke In vain it something would have spoke ; The love within too strong for't was , Like poison put into a Venice - glass . COWLEY ...
... continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke In vain it something would have spoke ; The love within too strong for't was , Like poison put into a Venice - glass . COWLEY ...
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... continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright and gay , but which time has been continually steal- ing from his brows . He ...
... continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright and gay , but which time has been continually steal- ing from his brows . He ...
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... continued : and , to raise his character again , has a mind to invest him with military splendour : " He is much mistaken , " he says , " if there was not about this time a design of making him an adjutant - general in Sir William ...
... continued : and , to raise his character again , has a mind to invest him with military splendour : " He is much mistaken , " he says , " if there was not about this time a design of making him an adjutant - general in Sir William ...
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