Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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Page 131
... Lord Tyrconnel , not only in the first lines , but in a formal dedication filled with the highest strains of ... Lord Tyrconnel and Mr. Savage assigned very different reasons , which might perhaps all in reality concur , though they were ...
... Lord Tyrconnel , not only in the first lines , but in a formal dedication filled with the highest strains of ... Lord Tyrconnel and Mr. Savage assigned very different reasons , which might perhaps all in reality concur , though they were ...
Page 139
... Lord Tyrconnel , and of his mother , were sufficiently industrious to publish his weak- nesses , which were indeed very numerous ; and no- thing was forgotten , that might make him either hateful or ridiculous . It cannot but be ...
... Lord Tyrconnel , and of his mother , were sufficiently industrious to publish his weak- nesses , which were indeed very numerous ; and no- thing was forgotten , that might make him either hateful or ridiculous . It cannot but be ...
Page 171
... Lord Tyrconnel , he could by no means be prevailed upon to comply with the measures that were proposed . A letter was written for him to Sir William Lemon , to prevail upon him to interpose his good offices with Lord Tyrconnel , in ...
... Lord Tyrconnel , he could by no means be prevailed upon to comply with the measures that were proposed . A letter was written for him to Sir William Lemon , to prevail upon him to interpose his good offices with Lord Tyrconnel , in ...
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