The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 3Methuen, 1896 |
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... write the Tale of a Tub . ' The digressions relating to Wotton and Bentley must be confessed to discover want of knowledge , or want of integrity ; he did not understand the two controversies , or he willingly misrepresented them . But ...
... write the Tale of a Tub . ' The digressions relating to Wotton and Bentley must be confessed to discover want of knowledge , or want of integrity ; he did not understand the two controversies , or he willingly misrepresented them . But ...
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... writer . For had a hundred such pens as these been employed on the side of religion , they would have immediately sunk into silence and oblivion . ' The reasonableness of a Test is not hard to be proved ; but perhaps it must be allowed ...
... writer . For had a hundred such pens as these been employed on the side of religion , they would have immediately sunk into silence and oblivion . ' The reasonableness of a Test is not hard to be proved ; but perhaps it must be allowed ...
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... writer more success . The people , who had been amused with bonfires and triumphal processions , and looked with idolatry on the General and his friends , who , as they thought , had made England the arbitress of nations , were ...
... writer more success . The people , who had been amused with bonfires and triumphal processions , and looked with idolatry on the General and his friends , who , as they thought , had made England the arbitress of nations , were ...
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... write so finely upon her . " Mrs. Johnson smiled , and answered , " that she thought that point not quite so clear ; for it was well known the Dean could write finely upon a broomstick . ” The great acquisition of esteem and influence ...
... write so finely upon her . " Mrs. Johnson smiled , and answered , " that she thought that point not quite so clear ; for it was well known the Dean could write finely upon a broomstick . ” The great acquisition of esteem and influence ...
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... write to him till he found himself at Chester . He returned to a home of sorrow : poor Stella was sinking into the grave , and , after a languishing decay of about two months , died in her forty - fourth year , on January 28 , 1728 ...
... write to him till he found himself at Chester . He returned to a home of sorrow : poor Stella was sinking into the grave , and , after a languishing decay of about two months , died in her forty - fourth year , on January 28 , 1728 ...
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