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... published till he had been sometime ated to the parliament , he followed the 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 ...
... published till he had been sometime ated to the parliament , he followed the 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 ...
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... published by Brown . These letters , being written like those of other men whose minds are more on things than words , contri- bute no otherwise to his reputation than as they show him to have been above the affecta- tion of ...
... published by Brown . These letters , being written like those of other men whose minds are more on things than words , contri- bute no otherwise to his reputation than as they show him to have been above the affecta- tion of ...
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... published a book of pro- fane and lascivious verses . From the charge of profaneness , the constant tenor of his life , which seems to have been eminently virtuous , and the general tendency of his opinions , which discover no ...
... published a book of pro- fane and lascivious verses . From the charge of profaneness , the constant tenor of his life , which seems to have been eminently virtuous , and the general tendency of his opinions , which discover no ...
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... published " An Essay upon Gam- ing . " He seems to have divided his studies between law and poetry : for , in 1636 , he translated the second book of the Eneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , notwithstanding his ...
... published " An Essay upon Gam- ing . " He seems to have divided his studies between law and poetry : for , in 1636 , he translated the second book of the Eneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , notwithstanding his ...
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... published by him cuss an equah wa baba 6 in his maturer years . They had been undoubt- edly applauded , for they were such as few can perform ; yet there is reason to suspect that he was regarded in his college with no great fond- That ...
... published by him cuss an equah wa baba 6 in his maturer years . They had been undoubt- edly applauded , for they were such as few can perform ; yet there is reason to suspect that he was regarded in his college with no great fond- That ...
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