Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to BeattieJohn Aikin A. Hart, Carey & Hart, 1850 - 807 pages |
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... appear . He ingratiated himself , however , with the principal persons about the court , and was particularly hon- ored with the friendship of Lord Falkland . Cowley took up his abode first at Barn - elms , on the banks of the Thames ...
... appear . He ingratiated himself , however , with the principal persons about the court , and was particularly hon- ored with the friendship of Lord Falkland . Cowley took up his abode first at Barn - elms , on the banks of the Thames ...
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... appear'st but in the light . OF MYSELF . THIS only grant me , that my means may lie Too low for envy , for contempt too high . Some honor I would have , Not from great deeds , but good alone ; Th ' unknown are better than ill known ...
... appear'st but in the light . OF MYSELF . THIS only grant me , that my means may lie Too low for envy , for contempt too high . Some honor I would have , Not from great deeds , but good alone ; Th ' unknown are better than ill known ...
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... appears , from several exercises pre- modious house in Aldersgate - street , and opened an served in his works , that ... appear singular that one who had himself drunk had invaded it ; " which denotes a man early habitu - so deeply at ...
... appears , from several exercises pre- modious house in Aldersgate - street , and opened an served in his works , that ... appear singular that one who had himself drunk had invaded it ; " which denotes a man early habitu - so deeply at ...
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... appear tion , to depose and put him to death , if the ordinary among those of the excepted persons . He now , in ... appears , at an early age , to tions ; while , on the other hand , the work of Sal- have thought of some subject in the ...
... appear tion , to depose and put him to death , if the ordinary among those of the excepted persons . He now , in ... appears , at an early age , to tions ; while , on the other hand , the work of Sal- have thought of some subject in the ...
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... appear , Not trick'd and frounc'd as she was wont With the Attic boy to hunt , But kercheft in a comely cloud , While rocking winds are piping loud , Or ushered with a shower still When the gust hath blown his fill , Ending on the ...
... appear , Not trick'd and frounc'd as she was wont With the Attic boy to hunt , But kercheft in a comely cloud , While rocking winds are piping loud , Or ushered with a shower still When the gust hath blown his fill , Ending on the ...
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