Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1964 - Poets, English |
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... whole rather than to the part , and by the effect of the whole he is abundantly justified . Further than this , many of the Lives still remain the principal authority upon their subjects . Later research has discovered little new that ...
... whole rather than to the part , and by the effect of the whole he is abundantly justified . Further than this , many of the Lives still remain the principal authority upon their subjects . Later research has discovered little new that ...
Page 137
... whole party of the royalists applauded it . Every eye watched for the golden shower which was to fall upon the author , who certainly was not without his part in the general expectation . In 1664 the second part appeared : the curiosity ...
... whole party of the royalists applauded it . Every eye watched for the golden shower which was to fall upon the author , who certainly was not without his part in the general expectation . In 1664 the second part appeared : the curiosity ...
Page 243
... whole is thus ; when she bleeds , thou needest no greater hell or torment to thyself , than infecting of others by pronouncing a sentence upon her . What hodge - podge does he make here ! Never was Dutch grout such clogging , thick ...
... whole is thus ; when she bleeds , thou needest no greater hell or torment to thyself , than infecting of others by pronouncing a sentence upon her . What hodge - podge does he make here ! Never was Dutch grout such clogging , thick ...
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