Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... lord Sunderland 3 ? " and Addison immediately returned , " When , Rag , were you drunk last ? " and went away . ' Captain Rag was a name which he got at Oxford by his negligence of dress * . points out that the society of Christ Church ...
... lord Sunderland 3 ? " and Addison immediately returned , " When , Rag , were you drunk last ? " and went away . ' Captain Rag was a name which he got at Oxford by his negligence of dress * . points out that the society of Christ Church ...
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... Lord Har- ley published in the Portland MSS . vol . vii Hist . MSS . Comm . 1901 . For Gastrell's character see also Hearne's Remains , ii . 239. ] [ George Duckett of Hartham ( not Gartham , as Johnson gives it ) was an intimate friend ...
... Lord Har- ley published in the Portland MSS . vol . vii Hist . MSS . Comm . 1901 . For Gastrell's character see also Hearne's Remains , ii . 239. ] [ George Duckett of Hartham ( not Gartham , as Johnson gives it ) was an intimate friend ...
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... Lord Wharton was sent to govern Ireland 3 , 12 King returned to London with his poverty , his idleness , and his wit ... Lords by the Commons . His trial lasted three weeks , during which all other business was suspended . The Queen's ...
... Lord Wharton was sent to govern Ireland 3 , 12 King returned to London with his poverty , his idleness , and his wit ... Lords by the Commons . His trial lasted three weeks , during which all other business was suspended . The Queen's ...
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... Lord Russell left at his death he writes : ' It was such as rather became the subtlety , artifice and equivocation of some crafty hypocritical confessor , or Presbyterian casuist , than the noble plainness and simplicity of a gentleman ...
... Lord Russell left at his death he writes : ' It was such as rather became the subtlety , artifice and equivocation of some crafty hypocritical confessor , or Presbyterian casuist , than the noble plainness and simplicity of a gentleman ...
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... Lord Keeper North , who died in 1685 , refused to join the Society , because ' he esteemed it a species of vanity for one , as he was , of a grave profession to list himself of a Society which , at that time , was made very free with by ...
... Lord Keeper North , who died in 1685 , refused to join the Society , because ' he esteemed it a species of vanity for one , as he was , of a grave profession to list himself of a Society which , at that time , was made very free with by ...
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