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Page 50
... Returning Peace , Dove - eyed , and rob'd in white - Of his petty poems some are very trifling , without any thing to be praised , either in the thought or expression . He is unlucky in his competition ; he tells the same idle tale with ...
... Returning Peace , Dove - eyed , and rob'd in white - Of his petty poems some are very trifling , without any thing to be praised , either in the thought or expression . He is unlucky in his competition ; he tells the same idle tale with ...
Page 55
... returning to his studies , he wrote a tragedy called " The Captives , " which he was invited to read before the Princess of Wales . When the hour came , he saw the Princess and her ladies all in expectation , and advancing with ...
... returning to his studies , he wrote a tragedy called " The Captives , " which he was invited to read before the Princess of Wales . When the hour came , he saw the Princess and her ladies all in expectation , and advancing with ...
Page 64
... returned from the government of Barbadoes , died at sea . He continued to serve in parliament ; and in the ninth year of Queen Anne was chosen knight of the shire for Cornwall . At the memorable change of the ministry ( 1710 ) he was ...
... returned from the government of Barbadoes , died at sea . He continued to serve in parliament ; and in the ninth year of Queen Anne was chosen knight of the shire for Cornwall . At the memorable change of the ministry ( 1710 ) he was ...
Page 74
... returned it , with very high com- mendations . Soon after it was generally known that Mr. Tickell was publishing the first book of the ' Iliad , ' I met Dr. Young in the street ; and , upon our falling into that subject , the Doctor ...
... returned it , with very high com- mendations . Soon after it was generally known that Mr. Tickell was publishing the first book of the ' Iliad , ' I met Dr. Young in the street ; and , upon our falling into that subject , the Doctor ...
Page 88
... returned home , having retired that day only to avoid his creditors , and composed the pamphlet only to dis- charge his reckoning . Mr. Savage related another fact equally uncommon , which , though it has no relation to his life , ought ...
... returned home , having retired that day only to avoid his creditors , and composed the pamphlet only to dis- charge his reckoning . Mr. Savage related another fact equally uncommon , which , though it has no relation to his life , ought ...
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