The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... whigs from court and from power , gratify at once the Queen and the people . There was now a call for writers , who might convey intelligence of past abuses , and shew the waste of public money , the unreason- able conduct of the allies ...
... whigs from court and from power , gratify at once the Queen and the people . There was now a call for writers , who might convey intelligence of past abuses , and shew the waste of public money , the unreason- able conduct of the allies ...
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... whigs returned to power , was aggra- vated to a charge of high treason ; though , as Prior remarks in his imperfect answer to the report of the Committee of Secrecy , no treaty ever was made without private interviews and preliminary ...
... whigs returned to power , was aggra- vated to a charge of high treason ; though , as Prior remarks in his imperfect answer to the report of the Committee of Secrecy , no treaty ever was made without private interviews and preliminary ...
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... whigs , under whose patronage he first entered the world , he became a tory so ardent and determinate , that he did not willingly consort with men of different opinions . He was one of the sixteen tories who met weekly , and agreed to ...
... whigs , under whose patronage he first entered the world , he became a tory so ardent and determinate , that he did not willingly consort with men of different opinions . He was one of the sixteen tories who met weekly , and agreed to ...
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... whigs , some intercession was used lest Congreve should be displaced , the Earl of Oxford made this answer : " Non obtusa adeo gestamus pectora Poni , Nec tam aversus equos Tyria sol jungit ab urbe . ” He that was thus honoured by the ...
... whigs , some intercession was used lest Congreve should be displaced , the Earl of Oxford made this answer : " Non obtusa adeo gestamus pectora Poni , Nec tam aversus equos Tyria sol jungit ab urbe . ” He that was thus honoured by the ...
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... whigs utterly desperate , he corresponded at once with the two expectants of the Crown , and kept , as has been observed , the succession undetermined . Not knowing what to do , he did nothing ; and , with the fate of a double dealer ...
... whigs utterly desperate , he corresponded at once with the two expectants of the Crown , and kept , as has been observed , the succession undetermined . Not knowing what to do , he did nothing ; and , with the fate of a double dealer ...
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