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... death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner , t near The difficulty of settling Prior's birth - place is great . In the register of his College he is called , at his admission by the President , Matthew Prior , of Winburn , in ...
... death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner , t near The difficulty of settling Prior's birth - place is great . In the register of his College he is called , at his admission by the President , Matthew Prior , of Winburn , in ...
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... death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers ; perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a man discountenanced and deprived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses ...
... death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers ; perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a man discountenanced and deprived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses ...
Pagina 35
... death . - Tis dread- ful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile , Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads , To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof , By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable , Looking tranquillity ...
... death . - Tis dread- ful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile , Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads , To bear aloft its arch'd and pond'rous roof , By its own weight made steadfast and immoveable , Looking tranquillity ...
Pagina 36
... death of the Marquis of Blandford , this was his song : And now the winds , which had so long been still , Began the swelling air with sighs to fill : The water - nymphs , who motionless remain'd , Like images of ice , while she ...
... death of the Marquis of Blandford , this was his song : And now the winds , which had so long been still , Began the swelling air with sighs to fill : The water - nymphs , who motionless remain'd , Like images of ice , while she ...
Pagina 54
... death by Mr. White , of Nayland , in Essex , the minister who attended his death - bed , and testified the fervent piety of his last hours . He died on the eighth of October , 1729 . BLACKMORE , by the unremitted enmity of the wits ...
... death by Mr. White , of Nayland , in Essex , the minister who attended his death - bed , and testified the fervent piety of his last hours . He died on the eighth of October , 1729 . BLACKMORE , by the unremitted enmity of the wits ...
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