The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... told the truth about his own birth , is , in appearance , to be very deficient in candour ; yet nobody can live long without knowing that falsehoods of convenience or vanity , falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues ...
... told the truth about his own birth , is , in appearance , to be very deficient in candour ; yet nobody can live long without knowing that falsehoods of convenience or vanity , falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues ...
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... told a petty lie to Louis XIV . continued it afterwards by false dates ; thinking himself obliged in honour , says his admirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated ...
... told a petty lie to Louis XIV . continued it afterwards by false dates ; thinking himself obliged in honour , says his admirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated ...
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... told a petty lie to Louis XIV . continued it afterwards by false dates ; thinking himself obliged in honour , says his admirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated ...
... told a petty lie to Louis XIV . continued it afterwards by false dates ; thinking himself obliged in honour , says his admirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated ...
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... told that there is something in them of vexation and discontent , discovered by a perpetual attempt to degrade physic from its sublimity , and to represent it as attainable without much previous or concomitant learning . By the ...
... told that there is something in them of vexation and discontent , discovered by a perpetual attempt to degrade physic from its sublimity , and to represent it as attainable without much previous or concomitant learning . By the ...
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... told that they were three very necessary men , Ford , Broome , and Fenton . The name in the play , which Pope restored to Brook , was then Broome . It was perhaps after this play that he undertook to revise the punctuation of Milton's ...
... told that they were three very necessary men , Ford , Broome , and Fenton . The name in the play , which Pope restored to Brook , was then Broome . It was perhaps after this play that he undertook to revise the punctuation of Milton's ...
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