The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... received the news of his ill - success , not with so much firmness as might have been expect- ed from so great a man . " What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will ...
... received the news of his ill - success , not with so much firmness as might have been expect- ed from so great a man . " What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will ...
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... received with kindness by the learned and the great . Holstenius , the keeper of the Vatican Library , who had resided three years at Oxford , introduced him to Cardinal Barberini : and he , at a musical entertainment , waited for him ...
... received with kindness by the learned and the great . Holstenius , the keeper of the Vatican Library , who had resided three years at Oxford , introduced him to Cardinal Barberini : and he , at a musical entertainment , waited for him ...
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... received more boys , to be boarded and in- structed . Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great pro- mises and small performance , on the man who hastens home , because his countrymen are ...
... received more boys , to be boarded and in- structed . Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great pro- mises and small performance , on the man who hastens home , because his countrymen are ...
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... , Case 2.-J. B. + He terms the author of it a shallow brand . pup py ; and thus refers to it in his index , " Of a nod dy who wrote a book about wining . " - J . B. Milton afterwards received her father and her bro- thers in MILTON . 91.
... , Case 2.-J. B. + He terms the author of it a shallow brand . pup py ; and thus refers to it in his index , " Of a nod dy who wrote a book about wining . " - J . B. Milton afterwards received her father and her bro- thers in MILTON . 91.
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Samuel Johnson. Milton afterwards received her father and her bro- thers in his own house , when they were distressed , with other royalists . He published about the same time his Areopa- gitica , a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the ...
Samuel Johnson. Milton afterwards received her father and her bro- thers in his own house , when they were distressed , with other royalists . He published about the same time his Areopa- gitica , a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the ...
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