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MILTON , Sintram and his Companions , & c . LA MOTTE FOUQUE . Memorable
Thoughts of Socrates XENOPHON . Daphnaida , and other Poems .. SPENSER
Undine , and The Two Captains LA MOTTE FOUQUE The Bravo of Venice M. G.
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MILTON , Sintram and his Companions , & c . LA MOTTE FOUQUE . Memorable
Thoughts of Socrates XENOPHON . Daphnaida , and other Poems .. SPENSER
Undine , and The Two Captains LA MOTTE FOUQUE The Bravo of Venice M. G.
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There is a story of great pain suffered , and of tears shed , on this occasion by
Dryden , who thought it hard that “ man should be so treated by those to whom he
had always been civil . ” By tales like these is the envy raised by superior abilities
...
There is a story of great pain suffered , and of tears shed , on this occasion by
Dryden , who thought it hard that “ man should be so treated by those to whom he
had always been civil . ” By tales like these is the envy raised by superior abilities
...
Pagina 9
The pictures of Le Brun are not only in themselves sufficiently ostentatious , but
were explained by inscrip . tions so arrogant , that Boileau and Racine thought it
necessary to make them more simple . He was in the following year at Loo with ...
The pictures of Le Brun are not only in themselves sufficiently ostentatious , but
were explained by inscrip . tions so arrogant , that Boileau and Racine thought it
necessary to make them more simple . He was in the following year at Loo with ...
Pagina 10
I mean not to accuse him of flattery ; he probably thought all that he writ , and
retained as much veracity as can be properly exacted from a poet professedly
encomiastic . King William supplied copious materials for either verse or prose .
I mean not to accuse him of flattery ; he probably thought all that he writ , and
retained as much veracity as can be properly exacted from a poet professedly
encomiastic . King William supplied copious materials for either verse or prose .
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When he had signed the paper , he was told by Walpole that the committee were
not satisfied with his behaviour , nor could give such an account of it to the
Commons as might merit favour ; and that they now Thought a stricter
confinement ...
When he had signed the paper , he was told by Walpole that the committee were
not satisfied with his behaviour , nor could give such an account of it to the
Commons as might merit favour ; and that they now Thought a stricter
confinement ...
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