The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works, Volum 1G. Walker, J. Akerman, E. Edwards, W. Robinson and Sons, Liverpool, E. Thomson, Manchester, J. Noble, Hull, J. Wilson, Berwick, W. Whyte and Company, Edinburgh, and R. Griffin and Company, Glasgow, 1820 |
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... Earl of St Alban's , and was employed in such correspondence as the royal cause required , and particularly in cyphering and decyphering the letters that passed between the king and queen ; an employment of the highest confidence and ...
... Earl of St Alban's , and was employed in such correspondence as the royal cause required , and particularly in cyphering and decyphering the letters that passed between the king and queen ; an employment of the highest confidence and ...
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... Earl of Arlington , from April to December , in 1650 , are preserved in " Miscellanea Aulica , " a collection of papers published by Brown . These letters , being written like those of other men whose minds are more on things than words ...
... Earl of Arlington , from April to December , in 1650 , are preserved in " Miscellanea Aulica , " a collection of papers published by Brown . These letters , being written like those of other men whose minds are more on things than words ...
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... Earl of St Al- ban's , and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the queen's lands as afforded him an ample in- come . By the lovers of virtue and of wit it will be soli- citously asked , if he now was happy . Let them peruse one of ...
... Earl of St Al- ban's , and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the queen's lands as afforded him an ample in- come . By the lovers of virtue and of wit it will be soli- citously asked , if he now was happy . Let them peruse one of ...
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... Earl of Pem- broke . Of the next years of his life there is no account . At the restoration he obtained that which many missed , the reward of his loyalty ; being made sur- veyor of the king's buildings , and dignified with the order of ...
... Earl of Pem- broke . Of the next years of his life there is no account . At the restoration he obtained that which many missed , the reward of his loyalty ; being made sur- veyor of the king's buildings , and dignified with the order of ...
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... Earl of Bridgewater's sons and daughter . The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe ; but we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer : His next production was Lycidas , an elegy , writ- ten in 1637 , on the ...
... Earl of Bridgewater's sons and daughter . The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe ; but we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer : His next production was Lycidas , an elegy , writ- ten in 1637 , on the ...
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