Lives of The English Poets Volume I1961 |
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Page 230
... present writers are by these wretches reduced to the same condition Virgil was , when the centurion seized on his estate . But I don't doubt but I can fix upon the Maecenas of the present age , that will retrieve them from it . But ...
... present writers are by these wretches reduced to the same condition Virgil was , when the centurion seized on his estate . But I don't doubt but I can fix upon the Maecenas of the present age , that will retrieve them from it . But ...
Page 286
... present not unsuitable to the magnificence of that splendid family ; and he quotes Moyle , as relating that forty pounds were paid by a musical society for the use of Alexander's Feast . In those days the oeconomy of government was yet ...
... present not unsuitable to the magnificence of that splendid family ; and he quotes Moyle , as relating that forty pounds were paid by a musical society for the use of Alexander's Feast . In those days the oeconomy of government was yet ...
Page 372
... present Majesty , and the present Government ; a performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excuse . The same year , being clerk of the closet to the king , he was made dean of the chapel - royal ...
... present Majesty , and the present Government ; a performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excuse . The same year , being clerk of the closet to the king , he was made dean of the chapel - royal ...
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