“The” Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1858 - 429 pagina's |
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... soon made com- missioner of trade . This year ( 1700 ) produced one of his longest and most splendid compositions , the " Carmen Seculare , " in which he exhausts all his powers of celebration . I mean not to accuse him of flattery : he ...
... soon made com- missioner of trade . This year ( 1700 ) produced one of his longest and most splendid compositions , the " Carmen Seculare , " in which he exhausts all his powers of celebration . I mean not to accuse him of flattery : he ...
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... soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the College Exercise , and ended with the " Nut - brown Maid . " The battle of Ramillies soon afterwards ( in ...
... soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the College Exercise , and ended with the " Nut - brown Maid . " The battle of Ramillies soon afterwards ( in ...
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... Soon after , the Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It is related by Boyer , that the intention was to have joined Prior in the commission , but that Shrews- bury refused to be associated with a man so meanly born ...
... Soon after , the Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It is related by Boyer , that the intention was to have joined Prior in the commission , but that Shrews- bury refused to be associated with a man so meanly born ...
Pagina 7
... soon as he could , and was welcomed on the 25th of March by a warrant , but was , however , suffered to live in his own house , under the custody of the messenger , till he was examined before a committee of the privy council , of which ...
... soon as he could , and was welcomed on the 25th of March by a warrant , but was , however , suffered to live in his own house , under the custody of the messenger , till he was examined before a committee of the privy council , of which ...
Pagina 8
... an Act of Grace was passed , he was excepted , and continued still in custody , which he had made less tedious by writing his " Alma . " He was , however , soon after discharged . He had now his liberty , but he had nothing 8 PRIOR .
... an Act of Grace was passed , he was excepted , and continued still in custody , which he had made less tedious by writing his " Alma . " He was , however , soon after discharged . He had now his liberty , but he had nothing 8 PRIOR .
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