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... nature no thirster for blood . Prior was a week after com- mitted to close custody , with orders that " no person should be admitted to see him without leave from the Speaker . " When , two years after , an Act of Grace was passed , he ...
... nature no thirster for blood . Prior was a week after com- mitted to close custody , with orders that " no person should be admitted to see him without leave from the Speaker . " When , two years after , an Act of Grace was passed , he ...
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... nature or by passion , and have neither gallantry nor tenderness . They have the coldness of Cowley , without his wit , the dull exercises of a skilful versifier , resolved at all adventures to write something about Chloe , and trying ...
... nature or by passion , and have neither gallantry nor tenderness . They have the coldness of Cowley , without his wit , the dull exercises of a skilful versifier , resolved at all adventures to write something about Chloe , and trying ...
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... nature , a poem of any length , cold and lifeless like this , may be easily written on any subject . In his Epilogues to Phædra and to Lucius he is very happily facetious ; but in the prologue before the Queen 14 PRIOR .
... nature , a poem of any length , cold and lifeless like this , may be easily written on any subject . In his Epilogues to Phædra and to Lucius he is very happily facetious ; but in the prologue before the Queen 14 PRIOR .
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... natural ; it had undoubt- edly been written with great labour ; and who is willing to think that he has been labouring in vain ? He had infused into it much knowledge and much thought ; had often polished it to elegance , often ...
... natural ; it had undoubt- edly been written with great labour ; and who is willing to think that he has been labouring in vain ? He had infused into it much knowledge and much thought ; had often polished it to elegance , often ...
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... nature . The characters , both of men and women , are either fictitious and artificial , as those of Heartwell and the ladies ; or easy and common , as Wittol , a tame idiot , Bluff , a swaggering coward , and Fondlewife , a jealous ...
... nature . The characters , both of men and women , are either fictitious and artificial , as those of Heartwell and the ladies ; or easy and common , as Wittol , a tame idiot , Bluff , a swaggering coward , and Fondlewife , a jealous ...
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