Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906 - 493 pagina's |
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Pagina 238
... present writers are by these wretches reduced to the same condition Virgil was , when the centurion seized on his estate . But I don't doubt but I can fix upon the Maecenas of the present age , that 238 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... present writers are by these wretches reduced to the same condition Virgil was , when the centurion seized on his estate . But I don't doubt but I can fix upon the Maecenas of the present age , that 238 LIVES OF THE POETS.
Pagina 297
... present not unsuitable to the magnificence of that splendid family ; and he quotes Moyle , as relating that forty pounds were paid by a musical society for the use of Alexander's Feast . In those days the oeconomy of government was yet ...
... present not unsuitable to the magnificence of that splendid family ; and he quotes Moyle , as relating that forty pounds were paid by a musical society for the use of Alexander's Feast . In those days the oeconomy of government was yet ...
Pagina 387
... present Majesty , and the present Government ; a performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excuse . The same year , being clerk of the closet to SPRAT 387.
... present Majesty , and the present Government ; a performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excuse . The same year , being clerk of the closet to SPRAT 387.
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