Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... lady treated him as their own child , 4 and put him to Westminster - school under the care of Dr. Busby5 ; whence after the loss of his faithful and generous guardian ( whose name he assumed and retained ) he was removed to Christ ...
... lady treated him as their own child , 4 and put him to Westminster - school under the care of Dr. Busby5 ; whence after the loss of his faithful and generous guardian ( whose name he assumed and retained ) he was removed to Christ ...
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... Lady Fane Grey , and had gone through several scenes of it . But he could not well have bequeathed that work to better hands than where , I hear , it is at present lodged 3 ; and the bare mention of two such names may justify the ...
... Lady Fane Grey , and had gone through several scenes of it . But he could not well have bequeathed that work to better hands than where , I hear , it is at present lodged 3 ; and the bare mention of two such names may justify the ...
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... Ladies , to - night your pity I implore For one who never troubled you before ; An Oxford man , extremely read in Greek , Who from Euripides makes Phaedra speak ; And comes to town to let us Moderns know How women loved two thousand ...
... Ladies , to - night your pity I implore For one who never troubled you before ; An Oxford man , extremely read in Greek , Who from Euripides makes Phaedra speak ; And comes to town to let us Moderns know How women loved two thousand ...
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... Lady Jane Grey . It is not unlikely that his experience of the inefficacy and incredibility of a mythological tale might determine him to choose an action from English History , at no great distance from our own times , which was to end ...
... Lady Jane Grey . It is not unlikely that his experience of the inefficacy and incredibility of a mythological tale might determine him to choose an action from English History , at no great distance from our own times , which was to end ...
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... Lady Anne with George Prince of Denmark 1 . He took orders ; and being made prebendary of Gloucester2 , 6 became a proctor in convocation for that church , and chaplain to Queen Anne . In 1710 he was presented by the bishop of ...
... Lady Anne with George Prince of Denmark 1 . He took orders ; and being made prebendary of Gloucester2 , 6 became a proctor in convocation for that church , and chaplain to Queen Anne . In 1710 he was presented by the bishop of ...
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