“The” Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1858 - 429 pages |
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... believe , more places than one are still shewn , in groves and gardens , where he is related to have written his " Old Bachelor . " Neither the time nor place of his birth is certainly known ; if the inscription upon his monument be ...
... believe , more places than one are still shewn , in groves and gardens , where he is related to have written his " Old Bachelor . " Neither the time nor place of his birth is certainly known ; if the inscription upon his monument be ...
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... believe with no other motive than religious zeal and honest indigna- tion . He was formed for a controvertist ; with sufficient learning ; with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect ; with unconquerable ...
... believe with no other motive than religious zeal and honest indigna- tion . He was formed for a controvertist ; with sufficient learning ; with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect ; with unconquerable ...
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... believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he published ( in 1695 ) " Prince Arthur , " in ten books , written , as he relates , " by such catches and ...
... believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he published ( in 1695 ) " Prince Arthur , " in ten books , written , as he relates , " by such catches and ...
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... believe rather a Complication first of Gross Humours , as he was naturally corpulent , not dis- charging themselves , as he used no sort of Exercise . No man better bore ye approaches of his Dissolution ( as I am told ) or with less ...
... believe rather a Complication first of Gross Humours , as he was naturally corpulent , not dis- charging themselves , as he used no sort of Exercise . No man better bore ye approaches of his Dissolution ( as I am told ) or with less ...
Page 63
... believe me always , with the utmost duty and submission , Sir , " Your most dutiful son , " And most obedient servant , " GEO . GRANVILLE . ' 99 Through the whole reign of King William he is supposed to have lived in literary retirement ...
... believe me always , with the utmost duty and submission , Sir , " Your most dutiful son , " And most obedient servant , " GEO . GRANVILLE . ' 99 Through the whole reign of King William he is supposed to have lived in literary retirement ...
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