Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageOctagon Books, 1967 - English poetry |
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Page 58
... give gratuitous advice to the neighbouring poor ' . This edict was sent to the Court of Aldermen ; and a question being made to whom the appellation of the ' poor ' should be extended , the College answered that it should be sufficient ...
... give gratuitous advice to the neighbouring poor ' . This edict was sent to the Court of Aldermen ; and a question being made to whom the appellation of the ' poor ' should be extended , the College answered that it should be sufficient ...
Page 137
... give Juba an opportunity to demand Marcia of her father . But the quarrel and rage of Juba and Syphax in the same Act ; the invectives of Syphax against the Romans and Cato ; the advice that he gives Juba , in her father's hall , to ...
... give Juba an opportunity to demand Marcia of her father . But the quarrel and rage of Juba and Syphax in the same Act ; the invectives of Syphax against the Romans and Cato ; the advice that he gives Juba , in her father's hall , to ...
Page 288
... give me leave to say , it is glorious at any age to die for one's country , and the sooner the nobler the sacrifice . ' I am now older by three years . My uncle Bathe was not so old when he was left among the slain at the battle of ...
... give me leave to say , it is glorious at any age to die for one's country , and the sooner the nobler the sacrifice . ' I am now older by three years . My uncle Bathe was not so old when he was left among the slain at the battle of ...
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