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Page 20
... given one example of representative versifi cation , which perhaps no other English line can equal : Begin , be bold , and venture to be wise : He , who defers this work from day to day , Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the ...
... given one example of representative versifi cation , which perhaps no other English line can equal : Begin , be bold , and venture to be wise : He , who defers this work from day to day , Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the ...
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... given more to dice and cards than study : " and there- fore gave no prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggishness and laxity , a genius born to improve the litera- ture of his country . | fessed ...
... given more to dice and cards than study : " and there- fore gave no prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggishness and laxity , a genius born to improve the litera- ture of his country . | fessed ...
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... given an account in the dedication of his works . He was afterwards employed in carrying on the King's correspondence ; and , as he says , discharged this office with great safety to the royalists : and , being accidentally discovered ...
... given an account in the dedication of his works . He was afterwards employed in carrying on the King's correspondence ; and , as he says , discharged this office with great safety to the royalists : and , being accidentally discovered ...
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... , Lady Mary , was given in marriage to Lord Herbert , of Cherbury . Notwithstanding Dr. Johnson's assertion , that the fiction is derived from Homer's Circe , it may be we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of 26 MILTON .
... , Lady Mary , was given in marriage to Lord Herbert , of Cherbury . Notwithstanding Dr. Johnson's assertion , that the fiction is derived from Homer's Circe , it may be we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of 26 MILTON .
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... given some offence by visiting Galileo , then a prisoner in the Inquisition for philosophical heresy ; and at Naples he was told by Manso , that , by his declar - zeal for the propagation of learning and virtue ; ations on religious ...
... given some offence by visiting Galileo , then a prisoner in the Inquisition for philosophical heresy ; and at Naples he was told by Manso , that , by his declar - zeal for the propagation of learning and virtue ; ations on religious ...
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