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... wrote a long ode , which was presented to the King , by whom it was not likely to be ever read . In two years he was secretary to another embassy , at the treaty of Ryswick ( in 1697 ) ; and next year had the same office at the court of ...
... wrote a long ode , which was presented to the King , by whom it was not likely to be ever read . In two years he was secretary to another embassy , at the treaty of Ryswick ( in 1697 ) ; and next year had the same office at the court of ...
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... wrote to Prior thus : " Monsieur de Torcy has a confidence in you : make use of it , once for all , upon this occasion , and convince him thoroughly , that we must give a different turn to our parliament and our people according to ...
... wrote to Prior thus : " Monsieur de Torcy has a confidence in you : make use of it , once for all , upon this occasion , and convince him thoroughly , that we must give a different turn to our parliament and our people according to ...
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... wrote it , or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided . And even if he should control his desire of immediate renown , and keep his work nine years unpublished , he will be still the author , and still in ...
... wrote it , or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided . And even if he should control his desire of immediate renown , and keep his work nine years unpublished , he will be still the author , and still in ...
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... wrote his own . His imitations of Horace are feebly paraphrastical , and the additions which he makes are of little value . He sometimes retains what were more properly omitted , as when he talks of vervain and gums to propitiate Venus ...
... wrote his own . His imitations of Horace are feebly paraphrastical , and the additions which he makes are of little value . He sometimes retains what were more properly omitted , as when he talks of vervain and gums to propitiate Venus ...
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... wrote not for a livelihood but for fame ; or , if he may tell his own motives , for a nobler purpose , to engage poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was ...
... wrote not for a livelihood but for fame ; or , if he may tell his own motives , for a nobler purpose , to engage poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was ...
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