LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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Page 77
... lived without prayer can hardly be affirmed ; his studies and meditations were an habitual prayer . The neglect of it in his family was probably a fault for which he condemned himself , and which he intended to correct , but that death ...
... lived without prayer can hardly be affirmed ; his studies and meditations were an habitual prayer . The neglect of it in his family was probably a fault for which he condemned himself , and which he intended to correct , but that death ...
Page 78
... lived seventy - six years , to August 1727. This is the daughter of whom public mention has been made . She could repeat the first lines of Homer , the Metamorphoses , and some of Euripides , by having often read them . Yet here ...
... lived seventy - six years , to August 1727. This is the daughter of whom public mention has been made . She could repeat the first lines of Homer , the Metamorphoses , and some of Euripides , by having often read them . Yet here ...
Page 94
... lived so long in either university , but as be- longing to one house or another ; and it is still less likely that he could have so long inhabited a place of learning with so little distinction as to leave his re- sidence uncertain . Dr ...
... lived so long in either university , but as be- longing to one house or another ; and it is still less likely that he could have so long inhabited a place of learning with so little distinction as to leave his re- sidence uncertain . Dr ...
Page 95
... lived , says Wood , upon her fortune , having studied the common law , but never practised it . A fortune she had , says his biographer , but it was lost by bad securities . In 1663 was published the first part , containing three cantos ...
... lived , says Wood , upon her fortune , having studied the common law , but never practised it . A fortune she had , says his biographer , but it was lost by bad securities . In 1663 was published the first part , containing three cantos ...
Page 96
... lived for some years in Rose - street , Covent Garden , and also that he died there ; the latter of these particulars is rendered highly probable by his being interred in the cemetery of that parish . E : Et Perduellium scelera ...
... lived for some years in Rose - street , Covent Garden , and also that he died there ; the latter of these particulars is rendered highly probable by his being interred in the cemetery of that parish . E : Et Perduellium scelera ...
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