The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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... Lord Bolingbroke ) after the manner of Horace's lusory or amatorian odes , is certainly a masterpiece : but Mr. Smith's Pocockius is of the sublimer kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most ...
... Lord Bolingbroke ) after the manner of Horace's lusory or amatorian odes , is certainly a masterpiece : but Mr. Smith's Pocockius is of the sublimer kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most ...
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... Lord Sunderland ? and Addison immediately returned , When , Rag , were you drunk last ? and went away . ' Captain Rag was a name which he got at Oxford by his negligence of dress . This story I heard from the late Mr. Clark of 14 LIVES ...
... Lord Sunderland ? and Addison immediately returned , When , Rag , were you drunk last ? and went away . ' Captain Rag was a name which he got at Oxford by his negligence of dress . This story I heard from the late Mr. Clark of 14 LIVES ...
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... Lord Wharton was sent to govern Ireland , King returned to London , with his poverty , his idleness , and his wit , and published some essays called Useful Transactions . His Voyage to the Island of Cajamai is particularly commended ...
... Lord Wharton was sent to govern Ireland , King returned to London , with his poverty , his idleness , and his wit , and published some essays called Useful Transactions . His Voyage to the Island of Cajamai is particularly commended ...
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... lords , and other commissioners , a formal profession of his unwillingness to exercise that authority any longer , and withdrew himself from them . After they had read his letter , they adjourned for six months , and scarcely ever met ...
... lords , and other commissioners , a formal profession of his unwillingness to exercise that authority any longer , and withdrew himself from them . After they had read his letter , they adjourned for six months , and scarcely ever met ...
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... Lords . At the accession of Queen Anne he was dismissed from the Council ; and in the first Parliament of her reign was again attacked by the Commons , and again escaped by the protection of the Lords . In 1704 , he wrote an answer to ...
... Lords . At the accession of Queen Anne he was dismissed from the Council ; and in the first Parliament of her reign was again attacked by the Commons , and again escaped by the protection of the Lords . In 1704 , he wrote an answer to ...
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