The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... thing equal , was formed the grand alliance against Louis , which at last did not produce effects proportionate tc the magnificence of the transaction . The conduct of Prior in this splendid initiation into public business was so ...
... thing equal , was formed the grand alliance against Louis , which at last did not produce effects proportionate tc the magnificence of the transaction . The conduct of Prior in this splendid initiation into public business was so ...
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... 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 quarter of the globe ; when Spain , coming to her ...
... 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 quarter of the globe ; when Spain , coming to her ...
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... thing be more absurd , " says he , " or more inhuman , than to propose to me a question , by the answering of which I might , according to them , prove myself a traitor ? And notwithstanding their solemn promise , that nothing which I ...
... thing be more absurd , " says he , " or more inhuman , than to propose to me a question , by the answering of which I might , according to them , prove myself a traitor ? And notwithstanding their solemn promise , that nothing which I ...
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... thing that approached to the ridiculous or absurd ; but as laws operate in civil agency not to the excite- ment of virtue , but the repression of wickedness , so judgment in the operations of intellect can hinder faults , but not ...
... thing that approached to the ridiculous or absurd ; but as laws operate in civil agency not to the excite- ment of virtue , but the repression of wickedness , so judgment in the operations of intellect can hinder faults , but not ...
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... thing by chance . " The Old Bachelor " was written for amusement in the languor of con- valescence . Yet it is ... things requisite to the suc- cess of its exhibition , and , by their greater experience , fitted it for the stage ...
... thing by chance . " The Old Bachelor " was written for amusement in the languor of con- valescence . Yet it is ... things requisite to the suc- cess of its exhibition , and , by their greater experience , fitted it for the stage ...
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