Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... 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 prefixed to his Works , who seems to have ...
... 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 prefixed to his Works , who seems to have ...
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... sent particularly to Waller , to second his demand of some subsidies to pay off the army , and Sir Henry Vane objecting against first voting a supply , because the king would not accept unless it came up to his proportion , Mr. Waller ...
... sent particularly to Waller , to second his demand of some subsidies to pay off the army , and Sir Henry Vane objecting against first voting a supply , because the king would not accept unless it came up to his proportion , Mr. Waller ...
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... sent him a thousand broad - pieces . He continued , however , to sit in the rebellious conventicle ; but " spoke , " says Clarendon , " with great sharpness and freedom , which , now there was no danger of being out - voted , was not ...
... sent him a thousand broad - pieces . He continued , however , to sit in the rebellious conventicle ; but " spoke , " says Clarendon , " with great sharpness and freedom , which , now there was no danger of being out - voted , was not ...
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... sent with several others to add pomp to the com- mission , but was not one of those to whom the trust of treating was imparted . The engagement , known by the name of Waller's plot , was soon afterwards discovered . Waller had a brother ...
... sent with several others to add pomp to the com- mission , but was not one of those to whom the trust of treating was imparted . The engagement , known by the name of Waller's plot , was soon afterwards discovered . Waller had a brother ...
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... of array , directed to such as he thought proper to nominate , which was sent to London by the Lady Aubigny . She knew not what she carried , but was to deliver it on the communication of a certain token which 20 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... of array , directed to such as he thought proper to nominate , which was sent to London by the Lady Aubigny . She knew not what she carried , but was to deliver it on the communication of a certain token which 20 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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