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... honour of his country by an Epistle to Boileau . He published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased pa- tron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the Col- lege Exercise , and ended with the ...
... honour of his country by an Epistle to Boileau . He published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased pa- tron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the Col- lege Exercise , and ended with the ...
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... moralist , having told a petty lie to Lewis the Four- teenth , continued it afterwards by false dates ; thinking himself obliged in honour , says his ad- C VOL . II . mirer , to maintain what , when he said it CONGREVE.
... moralist , having told a petty lie to Lewis the Four- teenth , continued it afterwards by false dates ; thinking himself obliged in honour , says his ad- C VOL . II . mirer , to maintain what , when he said it CONGREVE.
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... honour of her presence ; and when she died , soon after , Congreve testified his gratitude by a despica- ble effusion of elegiac pastoral ; a composition in which all is unnatural , and yet nothing is new . In another year ( 1695 ) his ...
... honour of her presence ; and when she died , soon after , Congreve testified his gratitude by a despica- ble effusion of elegiac pastoral ; a composition in which all is unnatural , and yet nothing is new . In another year ( 1695 ) his ...
Pagina 32
... honoured by the adverse party might naturally expect to be advanced when his friends returned to power , and he was ... honours were yet far greater than his profits . Every writer mentioned him with respect ; and , among other ...
... honoured by the adverse party might naturally expect to be advanced when his friends returned to power , and he was ... honours were yet far greater than his profits . Every writer mentioned him with respect ; and , among other ...
Pagina 40
... honour , that to have been once a school- master , is the only reproach which all the perspi- cacity of malice , animated by wit , has ever fixed upon his private life . When he first engaged in the study of physic , he inquired , as he ...
... honour , that to have been once a school- master , is the only reproach which all the perspi- cacity of malice , animated by wit , has ever fixed upon his private life . When he first engaged in the study of physic , he inquired , as he ...
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