LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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Page 91
... play on words , in which he delights too often ; his equivocations , which Bentley endeavours to defend by the example of the ancients ; his unnecessary and ungraceful use of terms of art ; it is not necessary to mention , because they ...
... play on words , in which he delights too often ; his equivocations , which Bentley endeavours to defend by the example of the ancients ; his unnecessary and ungraceful use of terms of art ; it is not necessary to mention , because they ...
Page 100
... play at cards , or to hide a shilling for the reckoning . Astrology , however , against which so much of the satire is directed , was not more the folly of the Puritans , than of others . It had in that time a very ex- tensive dominion ...
... play at cards , or to hide a shilling for the reckoning . Astrology , however , against which so much of the satire is directed , was not more the folly of the Puritans , than of others . It had in that time a very ex- tensive dominion ...
Page 102
... played . ROCHESTER . OHN WILMOT , afterwards Earl of Rochester , the son of Henry Eart Jo of Rochester , better known by the title of Lord Wilmot so often men- tioned in Clarendon's History , was born April 10 , 1647 , at Ditchley in Ox ...
... played . ROCHESTER . OHN WILMOT , afterwards Earl of Rochester , the son of Henry Eart Jo of Rochester , better known by the title of Lord Wilmot so often men- tioned in Clarendon's History , was born April 10 , 1647 , at Ditchley in Ox ...
Page 108
... play , which engaged him in one adventure that well deserves to be " related . As he returned to his lodgings from a gaming - table , he was attacked " in the dark by three ruffians , who were employed to assassinate him . The " Earl ...
... play , which engaged him in one adventure that well deserves to be " related . As he returned to his lodgings from a gaming - table , he was attacked " in the dark by three ruffians , who were employed to assassinate him . The " Earl ...
Page 113
... play - house , for the prop of an age . } Don Carlos , from which he is represented as having received so much . benefit , was played in 1675. It appears , by the Lampoon , to have had great success , and is said to have been played ...
... play - house , for the prop of an age . } Don Carlos , from which he is represented as having received so much . benefit , was played in 1675. It appears , by the Lampoon , to have had great success , and is said to have been played ...
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