The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... reason to suspect that his father was a sectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his son , and conse- quently left him to the care of his mother ; whom Wood represents as struggling earnestly to procure him a literary ...
... reason to suspect that his father was a sectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his son , and conse- quently left him to the care of his mother ; whom Wood represents as struggling earnestly to procure him a literary ...
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... reason to think that Cowley promised little . It does not appear that his compliance gained him confidence enough to be trusted without security , for the bond of his bail was never cancelled ; nor that it made him think him- self ...
... reason to think that Cowley promised little . It does not appear that his compliance gained him confidence enough to be trusted without security , for the bond of his bail was never cancelled ; nor that it made him think him- self ...
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... reason for supposing that he ever attempted practice : but his preparatory studies have contributed something to the honour of his country . Considering bo- tany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and ...
... reason for supposing that he ever attempted practice : but his preparatory studies have contributed something to the honour of his country . Considering bo- tany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and ...
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... reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by observing how unlikely it is , that , having followed ...
... reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by observing how unlikely it is , that , having followed ...
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... reasons that moved him to follow the violent inclination of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his former business , had still called upon him , and represented to him the true delights of solitary studies , of temperate ...
... reasons that moved him to follow the violent inclination of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his former business , had still called upon him , and represented to him the true delights of solitary studies , of temperate ...
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