Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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... ladies all in expectation , and advancing with reverence , too great for any other attention , stumbled at a stool ... lady heard them , and did nothing . All the pain which he suffered from the neglect , or , as he perhaps termed it ...
... ladies all in expectation , and advancing with reverence , too great for any other attention , stumbled at a stool ... lady heard them , and did nothing . All the pain which he suffered from the neglect , or , as he perhaps termed it ...
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... Lady were written about the time when his Essay was published . The Lady's name and adventures I have sought with fruitless enquiry . I can therefore tell no more than I have learned from Mr Ruff head , who writes with the confi- dence ...
... Lady were written about the time when his Essay was published . The Lady's name and adventures I have sought with fruitless enquiry . I can therefore tell no more than I have learned from Mr Ruff head , who writes with the confi- dence ...
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... Lady sues , How shameful her request ! My brain in labour with dull rhyme , Hers teeming with the best ! And again- A friend you have , and I the same , Whose prudent soft address Will bring to life those healing thoughts Which died in ...
... Lady sues , How shameful her request ! My brain in labour with dull rhyme , Hers teeming with the best ! And again- A friend you have , and I the same , Whose prudent soft address Will bring to life those healing thoughts Which died in ...
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