Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... known , was steward to the Countess , and is supposed to have gained much of his wealth by managing her estate . In ... known at Court by the taste and influence of the Earl of Dorset . When it was known , it was necessarily ...
... known , was steward to the Countess , and is supposed to have gained much of his wealth by managing her estate . In ... known at Court by the taste and influence of the Earl of Dorset . When it was known , it was necessarily ...
Page 147
... known that they were published till they appeared long afterwards with other poems . Waller was not one of those ... known to Clarendon , atmong the rest of the men who were eminent in that age for genius and literature ; but known ...
... known that they were published till they appeared long afterwards with other poems . Waller was not one of those ... known to Clarendon , atmong the rest of the men who were eminent in that age for genius and literature ; but known ...
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... known anything of this business , which was by them prepared for another ; and , therefore , I cannot imagine why you should wed it so far as to contract your own ruin by concealing it , and persisting unreasonably to hide that truth ...
... known anything of this business , which was by them prepared for another ; and , therefore , I cannot imagine why you should wed it so far as to contract your own ruin by concealing it , and persisting unreasonably to hide that truth ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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