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... Poets , have only render'd themselves obnoxious to that Satyrical Inspiration , our Author wittily invokes : Which made them , tho ' it were in fpight Of Nature and their Stars , to write . a On the other fide , fome who have had very ...
... Poets , have only render'd themselves obnoxious to that Satyrical Inspiration , our Author wittily invokes : Which made them , tho ' it were in fpight Of Nature and their Stars , to write . a On the other fide , fome who have had very ...
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... Poem was of th laft Compofition ; for altho ' he had not the happ nefs of an Academical Education , as fome affirm it may be perceiv'd , throughout his whole Poen that he had read much , and was very well ac complish'd in the most ...
... Poem was of th laft Compofition ; for altho ' he had not the happ nefs of an Academical Education , as fome affirm it may be perceiv'd , throughout his whole Poen that he had read much , and was very well ac complish'd in the most ...
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... Poem is fo thoroughly establish'd in the World , that it would be fuperfluous , if not impertinent , to endeavour any Panegyric upon it . However , fince most men have a curiofity to have fome account of fuch Anonymous Authors , whofe ...
... Poem is fo thoroughly establish'd in the World , that it would be fuperfluous , if not impertinent , to endeavour any Panegyric upon it . However , fince most men have a curiofity to have fome account of fuch Anonymous Authors , whofe ...
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... Poem , was born in the Parish of Strensham , in the County of Worcester , and bap- tized there the 13th of February 1612. His Fa- ther , who was of the fame Name , was an honest Country Farmer , who had fome fmall Estate of his own ...
... Poem , was born in the Parish of Strensham , in the County of Worcester , and bap- tized there the 13th of February 1612. His Fa- ther , who was of the fame Name , was an honest Country Farmer , who had fome fmall Estate of his own ...
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... Cromwell and then it was , as I am inform'd , he compofed this Loyal Poem , For tho ' Fate , more than Choice , feems to have placed him in the service of 2 a Knight so notorious , both in his Perfon A 4 a The Author's LIFE .
... Cromwell and then it was , as I am inform'd , he compofed this Loyal Poem , For tho ' Fate , more than Choice , feems to have placed him in the service of 2 a Knight so notorious , both in his Perfon A 4 a The Author's LIFE .
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