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... gave him so good a report , 943 mor That Apollo gave heed to all he could sayesindus Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , d ein . Unless he had done some notable folly , m Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or ...
... gave him so good a report , 943 mor That Apollo gave heed to all he could sayesindus Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , d ein . Unless he had done some notable folly , m Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or ...
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... 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 . In forming descriptions , they looked out , not for images , but for ...
... 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 . In forming descriptions , they looked out , not for images , but for ...
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... gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writ- ing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the fes- tive . the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows i upon his page , so that the ...
... gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writ- ing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the fes- tive . the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows i upon his page , so that the ...
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... gave no prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggishness and laxity , a genius born to improve the litera- ture of his country . When he was , three years afterwards , re- moved to Lincoln's Inn ...
... gave no prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggishness and laxity , a genius born to improve the litera- ture of his country . When he was , three years afterwards , re- moved to Lincoln's Inn ...
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... gave him no shame.o ** He took both the usual degrees ; that of bachelor in 1628 , and that of master in 1632 ; but he left the University with no kindness for its institution , alienated either by the injudicious severity of his ...
... gave him no shame.o ** He took both the usual degrees ; that of bachelor in 1628 , and that of master in 1632 ; but he left the University with no kindness for its institution , alienated either by the injudicious severity of his ...
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