Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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... afterwards reconciled ; but I am afraid their peace was without friendship . He afterwards published a Miscellany of Poems , which is inserted , with corrections , in the late com- pilation . He never rose to very high dignity in the ...
... afterwards reconciled ; but I am afraid their peace was without friendship . He afterwards published a Miscellany of Poems , which is inserted , with corrections , in the late com- pilation . He never rose to very high dignity in the ...
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... afterwards lord Cobham . father , purposing to educate him for the Church , sent him first to Eton , and afterwards to Oxford ; but he was seduced to a more airy mode of life , by a commission in a troop of horse procured him by his ...
... afterwards lord Cobham . father , purposing to educate him for the Church , sent him first to Eton , and afterwards to Oxford ; but he was seduced to a more airy mode of life , by a commission in a troop of horse procured him by his ...
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... afterwards to be his editor , and whose fondness and fidelity has kindled in him a zeal of admiration , which cannot be reasonably expected from the neutrality of a stranger and the coldness of a critick . In this retirement he wrote ...
... afterwards to be his editor , and whose fondness and fidelity has kindled in him a zeal of admiration , which cannot be reasonably expected from the neutrality of a stranger and the coldness of a critick . In this retirement he wrote ...
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