The Works of the English Poets, Volume 1J. Buckland, 1790 |
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... thousand fix hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whofe condition Dr. Sprat conceals under the general appellation of a citizen ; and , what would probably not have been B 3 been lefs carefully fuppreffed , the omiffion of ...
... thousand fix hundred and eighteen . His father was a grocer , whofe condition Dr. Sprat conceals under the general appellation of a citizen ; and , what would probably not have been B 3 been lefs carefully fuppreffed , the omiffion of ...
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... thousand lights of truth divine , So numberless the stars that to our eye It makes all but one galaxy : Yet Reason must affist too ; for in seas So vast and dangerous as these , Our course by stars above . we cannot know Without the ...
... thousand lights of truth divine , So numberless the stars that to our eye It makes all but one galaxy : Yet Reason must affist too ; for in seas So vast and dangerous as these , Our course by stars above . we cannot know Without the ...
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... thousand pounds that had been left him . In 1642 , he published " The Sophy . " This feems to have given him his first hold of the publick attention ; for Waller remarked , “ that " he broke out like the Irish rebellion three- " fcore ...
... thousand pounds that had been left him . In 1642 , he published " The Sophy . " This feems to have given him his first hold of the publick attention ; for Waller remarked , “ that " he broke out like the Irish rebellion three- " fcore ...
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... thousand pounds from the Scotch , that wandered over that kingdom . Poland was at that time very much frequented by itinerant traders , who , in a country of very little commerce and of great extent , where every man refided on his own ...
... thousand pounds from the Scotch , that wandered over that kingdom . Poland was at that time very much frequented by itinerant traders , who , in a country of very little commerce and of great extent , where every man refided on his own ...
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... thousand pounds . He After the Reftoration he wrote the poem on Prudence and Justice , and perhaps fome of his other pieces and as he appears , whenever any ferious queftion comes before him , to have been a man of piety , he ...
... thousand pounds . He After the Reftoration he wrote the poem on Prudence and Justice , and perhaps fome of his other pieces and as he appears , whenever any ferious queftion comes before him , to have been a man of piety , he ...
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