“The” Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1858 - 429 pages |
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... night was in some degree clandestine , the design of treating not being yet openly declared , and , when the whigs returned to power , was aggra- vated to a charge of high treason ; though , as Prior remarks in his imperfect answer to ...
... night was in some degree clandestine , the design of treating not being yet openly declared , and , when the whigs returned to power , was aggra- vated to a charge of high treason ; though , as Prior remarks in his imperfect answer to ...
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... night . He spread the airy Ocean without shores , Where birds are wafted with their feather'd oars . Then sung the bard how the light vapours rise From the warm earth , and cloud the smiling skies ; He sung how some , chill'd in their ...
... night . He spread the airy Ocean without shores , Where birds are wafted with their feather'd oars . Then sung the bard how the light vapours rise From the warm earth , and cloud the smiling skies ; He sung how some , chill'd in their ...
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... night , about the sky ; How some in winds blow with impetuous force , And carry ruin where they bend their course , While some conspire to form a gentle breeze , To fan the air and play among the trees ; How some , enraged , grow ...
... night , about the sky ; How some in winds blow with impetuous force , And carry ruin where they bend their course , While some conspire to form a gentle breeze , To fan the air and play among the trees ; How some , enraged , grow ...
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... night ; and Fenton , as a dramatic poet , took them to the stage - door ; where the door - keeper , inquiring who they were , was told that they were three very necessary men , Ford , Broome , and Fenton . The name in the play which ...
... night ; and Fenton , as a dramatic poet , took them to the stage - door ; where the door - keeper , inquiring who they were , was told that they were three very necessary men , Ford , Broome , and Fenton . The name in the play which ...
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... night of it , in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle , who sat in the next box to us , say , ' It will do it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them . ' This was a good ...
... night of it , in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle , who sat in the next box to us , say , ' It will do it must do ! I see it in the eyes of them . ' This was a good ...
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