The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner , near Charing Cross , who sent him for some time to Dr. Busby , at Westminster ; but , not intending to give him any education beyond that of the ...
... supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner , near Charing Cross , who sent him for some time to Dr. Busby , at Westminster ; but , not intending to give him any education beyond that of the ...
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... 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 ; and he is supposed to have passed some of the next years in the 2 PRIOR .
... 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 ; and he is supposed to have passed some of the next years in the 2 PRIOR .
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... supposed that they were soon released . The negotiation was begun at Prior's house , where the Queen's ministers met Mesnager ( September 20 , 1711 ) , and entered privately upon the great business . The importance of Prior appears from ...
... supposed that they were soon released . The negotiation was begun at Prior's house , where the Queen's ministers met Mesnager ( September 20 , 1711 ) , and entered privately upon the great business . The importance of Prior appears from ...
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... supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected work was so popular , that it was translated into Latin by no common master . His poem on the battle of Ramillies is necessarily tedious by the form of the ...
... supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected work was so popular , that it was translated into Latin by no common master . His poem on the battle of Ramillies is necessarily tedious by the form of the ...
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... preparatory studies , as may be reasonably supposed , with great celerity and success , his father thought it proper to assign him a profession by which something might be gotten ; and , about the time 20 CONGREVE . CONGREVE.
... preparatory studies , as may be reasonably supposed , with great celerity and success , his father thought it proper to assign him a profession by which something might be gotten ; and , about the time 20 CONGREVE . CONGREVE.
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