Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... Thoughts of Socrates Daphnaida , and other Poems .. Undine , and The Two Captains The Bravo of Venice The Legends of St. Patrick Voyages and Travels The Castle of Otranto .. Lives of Alcibiades , Aristides , & c . Table Talk ...
... Thoughts of Socrates Daphnaida , and other Poems .. Undine , and The Two Captains The Bravo of Venice The Legends of St. Patrick Voyages and Travels The Castle of Otranto .. Lives of Alcibiades , Aristides , & c . Table Talk ...
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... thought it hard that " an old man should be so treated by those to whom he had always been civil . " By tales like these is the envy raised by superior abilities every day gratified . When they are attacked every one hopes to see them ...
... thought it hard that " an old man should be so treated by those to whom he had always been civil . " By tales like these is the envy raised by superior abilities every day gratified . When they are attacked every one hopes to see them ...
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... thought it necessary to make them more simple . He was in the following year at Loo with the king , from whom , after a long audience , he carried orders to England , and upon his arrival became Under Secretary of State in the Earl of ...
... thought it necessary to make them more simple . He was in the following year at Loo with the king , from whom , after a long audience , he carried orders to England , and upon his arrival became Under Secretary of State in the Earl of ...
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... thought all that he writ , and retained as much veracity as can be properly exacted from a poet professedly encomiastic . King William supplied copious materials for either verse or prose . His whole life had been action , and none ever ...
... thought all that he writ , and retained as much veracity as can be properly exacted from a poet professedly encomiastic . King William supplied copious materials for either verse or prose . His whole life had been action , and none ever ...
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... thought a stricter confinement necessary than to his own house . " Here , " says he , " Boscawen played the moralist , and Coningsby the Christian , but both very awkwardly . " The messenger , in whose custody he was to be placed , was ...
... thought a stricter confinement necessary than to his own house . " Here , " says he , " Boscawen played the moralist , and Coningsby the Christian , but both very awkwardly . " The messenger , in whose custody he was to be placed , was ...
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