“The” Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1858 - 429 pages |
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... produce effects proportionate to the magnificence of the transaction . The conduct of Prior in this splendid initiation into public business was so pleasing to King William , that he made him one of the gentlemen of his bed - chamber ...
... produce effects proportionate to the magnificence of the transaction . The conduct of Prior in this splendid initiation into public business was so pleasing to King William , that he made him one of the gentlemen of his bed - chamber ...
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... produced a subject for all the writers ; perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically at- tended . Dryden , indeed , as a man discountenanced and de- prived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses omitted to bring his tribute ...
... produced a subject for all the writers ; perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically at- tended . Dryden , indeed , as a man discountenanced and de- prived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses omitted to bring his tribute ...
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... produced by that event which is now remembered . Every thing has its day . Through the reigns of William and Anne no prosperous event passed undignified by poetry . In the last war , when France was disgraced and overpowered in every ...
... produced by that event which is now remembered . Every thing has its day . Through the reigns of William and Anne no prosperous event passed undignified by poetry . In the last war , when France was disgraced and overpowered in every ...
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... produce of the sense in which the general preliminary engagements are entered into ; besides which , as he is the best versed in matters of trade of all your Majesty's servants who have been trusted in this secret , if you should think ...
... produce of the sense in which the general preliminary engagements are entered into ; besides which , as he is the best versed in matters of trade of all your Majesty's servants who have been trusted in this secret , if you should think ...
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... produced these extemporary lines : Mais cette voix , et ces beaux yeux , Font Cupidon trop dangereux ; Et je suis triste quand je crie , Bannissons la Melancholie . Tradition represents him as willing to descend from the dignity of the ...
... produced these extemporary lines : Mais cette voix , et ces beaux yeux , Font Cupidon trop dangereux ; Et je suis triste quand je crie , Bannissons la Melancholie . Tradition represents him as willing to descend from the dignity of the ...
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