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... reputation ; though during the suppression of the theatres , it was some times privately acted with sufficient approba- tion . In 1643 , being now master of arts , he was , by the prevalence of the parliament , ejected from Cambridge ...
... reputation ; though during the suppression of the theatres , it was some times privately acted with sufficient approba- tion . In 1643 , being now master of arts , he was , by the prevalence of the parliament , ejected from Cambridge ...
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... reputation than as they show him to have been above the affecta- tion of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not ...
... reputation than as they show him to have been above the affecta- tion of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetoric . One passage , however , seems not ...
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... reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering ...
... reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering ...
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... reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of whom any remembrance can be said to remain , were Suckling , Waller , Denham , Cowley , Cleiveland , and Milton ...
... reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of whom any remembrance can be said to remain , were Suckling , Waller , Denham , Cowley , Cleiveland , and Milton ...
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... reputation , that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated cen- sure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many parts de- serve at least that admiration which is due to great comprehension of ...
... reputation , that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated cen- sure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be erroneous , yet many parts de- serve at least that admiration which is due to great comprehension of ...
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