Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... passed through the exercises of the college and university with unusual applause , and though he often suffered his friends to call him off from his retirements and to lengthen out those jovial avocations , yet his return to his studies ...
... passed through the exercises of the college and university with unusual applause , and though he often suffered his friends to call him off from his retirements and to lengthen out those jovial avocations , yet his return to his studies ...
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... passed under his pen had all the life , 16 proportion , and embellishments bestowed on it which an ex- quisite skill , a warm imagination , and a cool judgement could possibly bestow on it . The epique , lyrick , elegiack , every sort ...
... passed under his pen had all the life , 16 proportion , and embellishments bestowed on it which an ex- quisite skill , a warm imagination , and a cool judgement could possibly bestow on it . The epique , lyrick , elegiack , every sort ...
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... passed his days in the quiet exercise of his 17 function . When the cause of Sacheverell put the publick in commotion he honestly appeared among the friends of the church . He lived to his seventy - ninth year , and died May 20 , 1713 ...
... passed his days in the quiet exercise of his 17 function . When the cause of Sacheverell put the publick in commotion he honestly appeared among the friends of the church . He lived to his seventy - ninth year , and died May 20 , 1713 ...
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... passed the Commons on Dec. 18 , 1695 . The life of Shaftesbury in the Gen. Dict . was not only extracted from a MS . life , written by the fourth Earl , now among the Shaftesbury Papers in the Record Office , but was also revised by him ...
... passed the Commons on Dec. 18 , 1695 . The life of Shaftesbury in the Gen. Dict . was not only extracted from a MS . life , written by the fourth Earl , now among the Shaftesbury Papers in the Record Office , but was also revised by him ...
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... passed for securing the Protestant Succession , he was appointed to carry the ensigns of the order to the electoral court 5. He sat as one of the judges of Sacheverell ; but voted for a mild sentence . Being now no longer in favour , he ...
... passed for securing the Protestant Succession , he was appointed to carry the ensigns of the order to the electoral court 5. He sat as one of the judges of Sacheverell ; but voted for a mild sentence . Being now no longer in favour , he ...
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