Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... King's College , in Cambridge . He was sent to Parliament in his eighteenth , if not in his sixteenth year , and frequented the court of James the First , where he heard a very remarkable conversation , which the writer of the Life ...
... King's College , in Cambridge . He was sent to Parliament in his eighteenth , if not in his sixteenth year , and frequented the court of James the First , where he heard a very remarkable conversation , which the writer of the Life ...
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... king turned and said to the Bishop of Winchester , ' Well , my Lord , what say you ? ' ' Sir , ' replied the bishop , ' I have no skill to judge of Parliamentary cases . ' The king answered , ' No put - offs , my Lord ; answer me ...
... king turned and said to the Bishop of Winchester , ' Well , my Lord , what say you ? ' ' Sir , ' replied the bishop , ' I have no skill to judge of Parliamentary cases . ' The king answered , ' No put - offs , my Lord ; answer me ...
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... king received the news in the chapel deserved indeed to be rescued from oblivion . Neither of these pieces that seem ... king's kindness to the descendants of Buckingham , which could not be properly praised till it had appeared by its ...
... king received the news in the chapel deserved indeed to be rescued from oblivion . Neither of these pieces that seem ... king's kindness to the descendants of Buckingham , which could not be properly praised till it had appeared by its ...
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... king's cause ; and , in her old age , meeting somewhere with Waller , asked him , when he would again write such verses upon her ; " When you are as young , Madam , " said he , " and as handsome as you were then . " In this part of his ...
... king's cause ; and , in her old age , meeting somewhere with Waller , asked him , when he would again write such verses upon her ; " When you are as young , Madam , " said he , " and as handsome as you were then . " In this part of his ...
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... King on his Navy ; the Panegyric on the Queen Mother ; the two poems to the Earl of Northumberland ; and perhaps others , of which the time cannot be discovered . When he had lost all hopes of Sacharissa , he looked round him for an ...
... King on his Navy ; the Panegyric on the Queen Mother ; the two poems to the Earl of Northumberland ; and perhaps others , of which the time cannot be discovered . When he had lost all hopes of Sacharissa , he looked round him for an ...
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