Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Volume 2Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1896 - 380 pages |
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... Clarendon , among the rest of the men who were eminent in that age for genius and literature ; but known so little to his advantage , that they who read his character will not much condemn Sacharissa , that she did not descend from her ...
... Clarendon , among the rest of the men who were eminent in that age for genius and literature ; but known so little to his advantage , that they who read his character will not much condemn Sacharissa , that she did not descend from her ...
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... three could not be endangered . Lord Conway joined in the design , and , Clarendon imagines , incidentally mingled , as he 23 Who married the poet's sister , Cecilia . was a soldier , some martial hopes or projects , WALLER 27.
... three could not be endangered . Lord Conway joined in the design , and , Clarendon imagines , incidentally mingled , as he 23 Who married the poet's sister , Cecilia . was a soldier , some martial hopes or projects , WALLER 27.
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... Clarendon , that in Waller's plan no violence or sanguinary resistance was comprised ; that he intended only to abate the confidence of the rebels by publick declarations , and to weaken their powers by an opposition to new supplies ...
... Clarendon , that in Waller's plan no violence or sanguinary resistance was comprised ; that he intended only to abate the confidence of the rebels by publick declarations , and to weaken their powers by an opposition to new supplies ...
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... Clarendon's History it is told , that a grateful commemoration of that glorious martyr . ' The bust is still in the church . " - CUNNINGHAM . 26 Lady Daubigny arrived in London , May 19 , 1643 , in company with Alexander Hampden . It is ...
... Clarendon's History it is told , that a grateful commemoration of that glorious martyr . ' The bust is still in the church . " - CUNNINGHAM . 26 Lady Daubigny arrived in London , May 19 , 1643 , in company with Alexander Hampden . It is ...
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... Clarendon , " was so confounded " with fear , that he confessed whatever he had heard , said , thought , or seen ; all that he knew " of himself , and all that he suspected of others , " without concealing any person , of what degree ...
... Clarendon , " was so confounded " with fear , that he confessed whatever he had heard , said , thought , or seen ; all that he knew " of himself , and all that he suspected of others , " without concealing any person , of what degree ...
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