Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volume 3C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... lived to become a correspon- dent of Pape , and even saw out the reign of Anne ; but he produced nothing in that of William , although he published a volume of poems in 1704 , and left some other trifles behind him , which were printed ...
... lived to become a correspon- dent of Pape , and even saw out the reign of Anne ; but he produced nothing in that of William , although he published a volume of poems in 1704 , and left some other trifles behind him , which were printed ...
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... lived in : " Dryden once took occasion to ask him how much he got by one of his plays ; to which he answered that he was really ashamed to inform him . But , Mr. Dryden being a little importunate to know , he plainly told him that by ...
... lived in : " Dryden once took occasion to ask him how much he got by one of his plays ; to which he answered that he was really ashamed to inform him . But , Mr. Dryden being a little importunate to know , he plainly told him that by ...
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... lived to the year 1699. Two other eminent theological writers of this reign , Cumberland and Bull , who both eventually became bishops , had also first ac- quired distinction in the preceding period . Cumberland's principal work is his ...
... lived to the year 1699. Two other eminent theological writers of this reign , Cumberland and Bull , who both eventually became bishops , had also first ac- quired distinction in the preceding period . Cumberland's principal work is his ...
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... lived till very nearly the end of the reign of Anne , he published nothing , we believe , after the Revolution , nor indeed for a good many years before it . His style , which was so much admired in his own age , is a Frenchified ...
... lived till very nearly the end of the reign of Anne , he published nothing , we believe , after the Revolution , nor indeed for a good many years before it . His style , which was so much admired in his own age , is a Frenchified ...
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... lived deliciously , and said in her heart , I sit a queen , and shall see no sorrow . But her hour is come , she is wiped away from the face of the earth , and buried in perpetual oblivion . But it is not cities only , and works of ...
... lived deliciously , and said in her heart , I sit a queen , and shall see no sorrow . But her hour is come , she is wiped away from the face of the earth , and buried in perpetual oblivion . But it is not cities only , and works of ...
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