The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 8Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... grow richer , by marrying Mrs. Banks , a great heiress in the city , whom the interest of the court was employed to obtain for Mr. Crofts . Having brought him a son , who died young , and a daughter , who was afterwards married to Mr ...
... grow richer , by marrying Mrs. Banks , a great heiress in the city , whom the interest of the court was employed to obtain for Mr. Crofts . Having brought him a son , who died young , and a daughter , who was afterwards married to Mr ...
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... grow faithless to each other . In the poem on the War with Spain are some passages at least equal to the best parts of the Panegyric ; and , in the conclusion , the poet ventures yet a higher flight of flat- tery , by recommending ...
... grow faithless to each other . In the poem on the War with Spain are some passages at least equal to the best parts of the Panegyric ; and , in the conclusion , the poet ventures yet a higher flight of flat- tery , by recommending ...
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... grow tumid : be went to Windsor , where sir Charles Scarborough then attended the king , and requested him , as both a friend and a physician , to tell him , what that swelling meant , " Sir , " answered Scarborough , " your blood will ...
... grow tumid : be went to Windsor , where sir Charles Scarborough then attended the king , and requested him , as both a friend and a physician , to tell him , what that swelling meant , " Sir , " answered Scarborough , " your blood will ...
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... grows . Figs there unplanted through the fields do grow , Such as fierce Cato did the Romans show ; With the rare fruit inviting them to spoil Carthage , the mistress of so rich a soil . The naked rocks are not unfruitful there , But ...
... grows . Figs there unplanted through the fields do grow , Such as fierce Cato did the Romans show ; With the rare fruit inviting them to spoil Carthage , the mistress of so rich a soil . The naked rocks are not unfruitful there , But ...
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... Grown and design'd for nobler use , Not to make warm , but build the house , Though from our meaner flames secure ... grow Out of those favours you afford me now ; That I might ever such indulgence find , And you not blush , or think ...
... Grown and design'd for nobler use , Not to make warm , but build the house , Though from our meaner flames secure ... grow Out of those favours you afford me now ; That I might ever such indulgence find , And you not blush , or think ...
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