“The” Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1858 - 429 pages |
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... shewn the victories of Louis , painted by Le Brun , and asked whether the King of England's palace had any such decorations : " The monuments of my master's actions , ' " said he , " are to be seen every where but in his own house ...
... shewn the victories of Louis , painted by Le Brun , and asked whether the King of England's palace had any such decorations : " The monuments of my master's actions , ' " said he , " are to be seen every where but in his own house ...
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... shew his delight in the increasing honour of his country by an Epistle to Boileau . He published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the College ...
... shew his delight in the increasing honour of his country by an Epistle to Boileau . He published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the College ...
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... shew the waste of public money , the unreason- able conduct of the allies , the avarice of generals , the tyranny of minions , and the general danger of approaching ruin . For this purpose a paper called " The Examiner " was ...
... shew the waste of public money , the unreason- able conduct of the allies , the avarice of generals , the tyranny of minions , and the general danger of approaching ruin . For this purpose a paper called " The Examiner " was ...
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... shew : SPENSER . She flying fast from Heaven's hated face , And from the world that her discovered wide , Fied to the wasteful wilderness apace , From living eyes her open shame to hide , And lurk'd in rocks and caves long unespy'd ...
... shew : SPENSER . She flying fast from Heaven's hated face , And from the world that her discovered wide , Fied to the wasteful wilderness apace , From living eyes her open shame to hide , And lurk'd in rocks and caves long unespy'd ...
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... 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 true , he was born in 1672. For the place ...
... 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 true , he was born in 1672. For the place ...
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