Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... delight imagina- tion , which he who flatters them never can approve . There are charms made only for distant admiration . No spectacle is nobler than a blaze . Of this wife , his biographers have recorded that she gave him five sons ...
... delight imagina- tion , which he who flatters them never can approve . There are charms made only for distant admiration . No spectacle is nobler than a blaze . Of this wife , his biographers have recorded that she gave him five sons ...
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... delight of the House , and though old , said the liveliest things of any among them . " This , however , is said in his account of the year seventy - five , when Waller was only seventy . His name as a speaker occurs often in Grey's ...
... delight of the House , and though old , said the liveliest things of any among them . " This , however , is said in his account of the year seventy - five , when Waller was only seventy . His name as a speaker occurs often in Grey's ...
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... delight . He related , that being present when the Duke of Bucking- ham talked profanely before King Charles , he said to him , " My lord , I am a great deal older than your grace and have , I believe , heard more arguments for atheism ...
... delight . He related , that being present when the Duke of Bucking- ham talked profanely before King Charles , he said to him , " My lord , I am a great deal older than your grace and have , I believe , heard more arguments for atheism ...
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... delight than weight . There needs no more be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit , and pleasantness of his conversation , than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults ; that is , so to cover ...
... delight than weight . There needs no more be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit , and pleasantness of his conversation , than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults ; that is , so to cover ...
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... delight of the House , " adds , that " he was only concerned to say that which should make him be applauded , he ... delighted in his company , he obtained only the pardon of his relation Hampden , and the safety of Hampden's son . As ...
... delight of the House , " adds , that " he was only concerned to say that which should make him be applauded , he ... delighted in his company , he obtained only the pardon of his relation Hampden , and the safety of Hampden's son . As ...
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