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... afterwards , he was registered again by himself as of Middlesex . The last record ought to be preferred , because it was made upon oath . It is observable , that , as a native of Winborne , he is styled Filius Georgii Prior , generosi ...
... afterwards , he was registered again by himself as of Middlesex . The last record ought to be preferred , because it was made upon oath . It is observable , that , as a native of Winborne , he is styled Filius Georgii Prior , generosi ...
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... afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the College Exercise , and ended with the " " Nut - brown Maid . " The battle of Ramillies soon afterwards ( in ...
... afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the College Exercise , and ended with the " " Nut - brown Maid . " The battle of Ramillies soon afterwards ( in ...
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... afterwards by false dates ; thinking himself obliged in honour , says his ad- mirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated first at Kilkenny , and afterwards at Dublin ...
... afterwards by false dates ; thinking himself obliged in honour , says his ad- mirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated first at Kilkenny , and afterwards at Dublin ...
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... Afterwards , through my indiscretion , it was seen , and , in some little time more , it was acted ; and I , through the re- mainder of my indiscretion , suffered myself to be drawn into the prosecution of a difficult and thankless ...
... Afterwards , through my indiscretion , it was seen , and , in some little time more , it was acted ; and I , through the re- mainder of my indiscretion , suffered myself to be drawn into the prosecution of a difficult and thankless ...
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... afterwards , ( 1687 ) " The Mourning Bride , " a tragedy , so written as to shew him sufficiently qualified for either kind of dramatic poetry . In this play , of which , when he afterwards revised it , he reduced the versification to ...
... afterwards , ( 1687 ) " The Mourning Bride , " a tragedy , so written as to shew him sufficiently qualified for either kind of dramatic poetry . In this play , of which , when he afterwards revised it , he reduced the versification to ...
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