The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... soon after gave him a place in the pipe - office , and another in the customs of six hundred pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an ...
... soon after gave him a place in the pipe - office , and another in the customs of six hundred pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an ...
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... soon after gave him a place in the pipe - office , and another in the customs of six hundred pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an ...
... soon after gave him a place in the pipe - office , and another in the customs of six hundred pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an ...
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... soon after , Congreve testified his gratitude by a despicable effusion of elegiac pastoral ; a composition in which all is unnatural , and yet nothing is new . In another year , ( 1695 ) , his prolific pen produced Love for Love ; a ...
... soon after , Congreve testified his gratitude by a despicable effusion of elegiac pastoral ; a composition in which all is unnatural , and yet nothing is new . In another year , ( 1695 ) , his prolific pen produced Love for Love ; a ...
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... soon the shady scene withdrew . And now , for woods , and fields , and springing flowers , Behold a town arise , bulwark'd with walls and lofty towers ; Two rival armies all the plain o'erspread , Each in battalia rang'd , and shining ...
... soon the shady scene withdrew . And now , for woods , and fields , and springing flowers , Behold a town arise , bulwark'd with walls and lofty towers ; Two rival armies all the plain o'erspread , Each in battalia rang'd , and shining ...
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... soon after ( Oct. 1. ) chosen censor . He seems to have arrived late , whatever was the reason , at his medical honours . Having succeeded so well in his book on Creation , by which he established the great principle of all religion ...
... soon after ( Oct. 1. ) chosen censor . He seems to have arrived late , whatever was the reason , at his medical honours . Having succeeded so well in his book on Creation , by which he established the great principle of all religion ...
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