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... passed some of the next years in the quiet cultivation of literature and poetry . The death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers — perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a ...
... passed some of the next years in the quiet cultivation of literature and poetry . The death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers — perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a ...
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... 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 assistance , only shared her calamities , and the name of an Englishman was reverenced ...
... 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 assistance , only shared her calamities , and the name of an Englishman was reverenced ...
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... passed , he was excepted , and continued still in custody , which he had made less tedious by writing his " Alma ... passing the day in contemplative tranquillity . But it seems that busy men seldom live long in a state of quiet . It is ...
... passed , he was excepted , and continued still in custody , which he had made less tedious by writing his " Alma ... passing the day in contemplative tranquillity . But it seems that busy men seldom live long in a state of quiet . It is ...
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... passed through many successions of merry wits , for it is to be found in Ariosto's " Satires , " and is perhaps yet older . But the merit of such stories is the art of telling them . In his amorous effusions he is less happy ; for they ...
... passed through many successions of merry wits , for it is to be found in Ariosto's " Satires , " and is perhaps yet older . But the merit of such stories is the art of telling them . In his amorous effusions he is less happy ; for they ...
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... passed through the usual 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 of the ...
... passed through the usual 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 of the ...
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