Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... poets . " Soon after , the Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It is related by Boyer that the in- tention was to have joined Prior in the commission , but that Shrewsbury refused to be associated with a man so meanly ...
... poets . " Soon after , the Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It is related by Boyer that the in- tention was to have joined Prior in the commission , but that Shrewsbury refused to be associated with a man so meanly ...
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... poem that he had no service of plate ; and it appeared by the debts which he contracted that his remittances were not punctually made . On the 1st of August , 1714 , ensued the downfall of the Tories and the degradation of Prior . He ...
... poem that he had no service of plate ; and it appeared by the debts which he contracted that his remittances were not punctually made . On the 1st of August , 1714 , ensued the downfall of the Tories and the degradation of Prior . He ...
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... poems to those which he had printed , and to publish them by subscription . The expedient succeeded by the industry of many friends , who circulated the proposals , and the care of some who , it is said , withheld the money from him ...
... poems to those which he had printed , and to publish them by subscription . The expedient succeeded by the industry of many friends , who circulated the proposals , and the care of some who , it is said , withheld the money from him ...
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... , both by his abilities and station , very few memorials have been left by his con- temporaries ; the account , therefore , must now be destitute of his private character and familiar practices . He 18 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... , both by his abilities and station , very few memorials have been left by his con- temporaries ; the account , therefore , must now be destitute of his private character and familiar practices . He 18 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... , In that celestial colloquy sublime , Dazzled and spent , sunk down , and sought repair . " " Poor Prior ; why was he so strained , and in such want of repair , after a conversation with men not , 20 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... , In that celestial colloquy sublime , Dazzled and spent , sunk down , and sought repair . " " Poor Prior ; why was he so strained , and in such want of repair , after a conversation with men not , 20 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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