Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... King Henry VIII . , King John , A Winter's Tale , The Tempest , As You Like It , Coriolanus , Richard II . , King Henry IV . ( Part 1. ) , King Henry IV . ( Part II . ) , Merry Wives of Windsor , King Henry V. , Taming of the Shrew . King ...
... King Henry VIII . , King John , A Winter's Tale , The Tempest , As You Like It , Coriolanus , Richard II . , King Henry IV . ( Part 1. ) , King Henry IV . ( Part II . ) , Merry Wives of Windsor , King Henry V. , Taming of the Shrew . King ...
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... King William , that he made him one of the gentlemen of his bedchamber ; and he is supposed to have passed some of the next years in the quiet cultivation of literature and poetry . The death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject ...
... King William , that he made him one of the gentlemen of his bedchamber ; and he is supposed to have passed some of the next years in the quiet cultivation of literature and poetry . The death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject ...
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... King William supplied copious materials for either verse or prose . His whole life had been action , and none ever denied him the resplendent qualities of steady resolution and personal courage . He was really in Prior's mind what he ...
... King William supplied copious materials for either verse or prose . His whole life had been action , and none ever denied him the resplendent qualities of steady resolution and personal courage . He was really in Prior's mind what he ...
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... king to the Partition Treaty , a treaty in which he himself had been ministerially employed . A great part of Queen Anne's reign was a time of war , in which there was little employment for negotiators , and Prior had , therefore ...
... king to the Partition Treaty , a treaty in which he himself had been ministerially employed . A great part of Queen Anne's reign was a time of war , in which there was little employment for negotiators , and Prior had , therefore ...
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... King " are now perused only by young students , who read merely that they may learn to write ; and of the " Carmen Seculare , " I cannot but suspect that I might praise or censure it by caprice without danger of detection ; for who can ...
... King " are now perused only by young students , who read merely that they may learn to write ; and of the " Carmen Seculare , " I cannot but suspect that I might praise or censure it by caprice without danger of detection ; for who can ...
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