The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volum 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 |
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... soon after gave him a place in the Pipe - Office , and another in the Customs of six hun- dred pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such ...
... soon after gave him a place in the Pipe - Office , and another in the Customs of six hun- dred pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such ...
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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 weary of either the restraint or servility of his occupation , and easily persuaded his master to discharge him . The Duchess of Monmouth , remarkable for inflexible persever- ance in her demand to be treated as a princess , in ...
... soon weary of either the restraint or servility of his occupation , and easily persuaded his master to discharge him . The Duchess of Monmouth , remarkable for inflexible persever- ance in her demand to be treated as a princess , in ...
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... soon fell into his old distemper , an habitual colic , and languished , though with many intervals of ease and cheerfulness , till a violent fit at last seized him , and carried him to the grave , as Arbuthnot reported , with more ...
... soon fell into his old distemper , an habitual colic , and languished , though with many intervals of ease and cheerfulness , till a violent fit at last seized him , and carried him to the grave , as Arbuthnot reported , with more ...
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