Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... language of an honest man . At last it became necessary , for his support , to sell his wife's jewels ; and being reduced , as he said , at last " to the rump - jewel , " he solicited from Cromwell permission to return , and obtained it ...
... language of an honest man . At last it became necessary , for his support , to sell his wife's jewels ; and being reduced , as he said , at last " to the rump - jewel , " he solicited from Cromwell permission to return , and obtained it ...
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... language of the nation that maintained him . In Parliament , " he was , " says Burnet , " the 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 ...
... language of the nation that maintained him . In Parliament , " he was , " says Burnet , " the 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 ...
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... language of a man who is glad of an opportunity to rail , and ready to sacrifice truth to interest at one time , and to anger at another . e 1 A year after the chancellor's banishment , another vacancy gave him encouragement for another ...
... language of a man who is glad of an opportunity to rail , and ready to sacrifice truth to interest at one time , and to anger at another . e 1 A year after the chancellor's banishment , another vacancy gave him encouragement for another ...
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... language we term wits , says , that they are open flatterers , and private mockers . " Waller showed a little of both , when , upon sight of the Duchess of Newcastle's verses on the Death of a Stag , he declared that he would give all ...
... language we term wits , says , that they are open flatterers , and private mockers . " Waller showed a little of both , when , upon sight of the Duchess of Newcastle's verses on the Death of a Stag , he declared that he would give all ...
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... language at that time . The two next poems are upon the king's behaviour at the death of Buckingham , and upon his Navy . He has , in the first , used the pagan deities with great propriety : ' Twas want of such a precedent as this Made ...
... language at that time . The two next poems are upon the king's behaviour at the death of Buckingham , and upon his Navy . He has , in the first , used the pagan deities with great propriety : ' Twas want of such a precedent as this Made ...
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