Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... answered by Addison , who appears to have known the author either by conjecture or intelligence . The Tories , who were now in power , were in haste to end the war , and Prior , being recalled ( 1710 ) to his former employment of making ...
... answered by Addison , who appears to have known the author either by conjecture or intelligence . The Tories , who were now in power , were in haste to end the war , and Prior , being recalled ( 1710 ) to his former employment of making ...
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... answer to the Report of the Committee of Secrecy , no treaty ever was made with- out private interviews and preliminary discussions . My business is not the history of the peace , but the life of Prior . The conferences began at Utrecht ...
... answer to the Report of the Committee of Secrecy , no treaty ever was made with- out private interviews and preliminary discussions . My business is not the history of the peace , but the life of Prior . The conferences began at Utrecht ...
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... men elated by recent authority . They are represented as asking questions sometimes vague , sometimes insidious , and writing answers different from those which they received . Prior , however , seems to have been 14 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... men elated by recent authority . They are represented as asking questions sometimes vague , sometimes insidious , and writing answers different from those which they received . Prior , however , seems to have been 14 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... answer which perplexed them , because it supplied no accusation against either . " Could anything 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 ...
... answer which perplexed them , because it supplied no accusation against either . " Could anything 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 ...
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... answers to a boastful Frenchman has been related ; and to an im- pertinent he made another equally proper . During his embassy he sat at the opera by a man who , in his rapture , accompanied with his own voice the principal singer ...
... answers to a boastful Frenchman has been related ; and to an im- pertinent he made another equally proper . During his embassy he sat at the opera by a man who , in his rapture , accompanied with his own voice the principal singer ...
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