The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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... favour with this age , and so good a proof of its nice discernment . His judgment , naturally good , soon ripened into an exquisite fineness and distinguishing sagacity , which as it was active and busy , so it was vigorous and manly ...
... favour with this age , and so good a proof of its nice discernment . His judgment , naturally good , soon ripened into an exquisite fineness and distinguishing sagacity , which as it was active and busy , so it was vigorous and manly ...
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... favours she flung in his way when offered to him at the price of a more durable reputation . He took care to have no ... favour . Whatever quarrel a few sour creatures , whose obscurity is their happiness , may possibly have to the age ...
... favours she flung in his way when offered to him at the price of a more durable reputation . He took care to have no ... favour . Whatever quarrel a few sour creatures , whose obscurity is their happiness , may possibly have to the age ...
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... favour . Thus far he suffered interest or obedience to carry him ; but further he refused to go . When he found that the powers of the ecclesiastical commission were to be exercised against those who had refused the Declaration , he ...
... favour . Thus far he suffered interest or obedience to carry him ; but further he refused to go . When he found that the powers of the ecclesiastical commission were to be exercised against those who had refused the Declaration , he ...
Pàgina 34
... favour of a law to grant the assistance of counsel in trials for high treason ; and in the midst of his speech , falling into some confusion , was for a while silent ; but , recovering himself , observed , ' how reasonable it was to ...
... favour of a law to grant the assistance of counsel in trials for high treason ; and in the midst of his speech , falling into some confusion , was for a while silent ; but , recovering himself , observed , ' how reasonable it was to ...
Pàgina 35
... favour , he contrived to obtain a writ for summoning the electoral prince to Parliament as Duke of Cambridge . At the queen's death he was appointed one of the Regents ; and at the accession of George the First was made Earl of Halifax ...
... favour , he contrived to obtain a writ for summoning the electoral prince to Parliament as Duke of Cambridge . At the queen's death he was appointed one of the Regents ; and at the accession of George the First was made Earl of Halifax ...
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