The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... remarkable for inflexible perseverance in her demand to be treated as a princess , in 1712 , took Gay into her service as secretary : by quitting a shop for such service he might gain leisure , but he cer- tainly advanced little in the ...
... remarkable for inflexible perseverance in her demand to be treated as a princess , in 1712 , took Gay into her service as secretary : by quitting a shop for such service he might gain leisure , but he cer- tainly advanced little in the ...
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... remarkable , produced a pamphlet , called The Key to the What d'ye call it ? which , says Gay , " calls me a block- head , and mr . Pope a knave . " But fortune has always been inconstant . Not long af terwards , ( 1717 ) , he ...
... remarkable , produced a pamphlet , called The Key to the What d'ye call it ? which , says Gay , " calls me a block- head , and mr . Pope a knave . " But fortune has always been inconstant . Not long af terwards , ( 1717 ) , he ...
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... remarkable sentence by which he warned his congregation to " beware of thorough - paced doctrine , that doctrine which , coming in at one ear , paces through the head , and goes out at the other . " Nothing worse than this appearing in ...
... remarkable sentence by which he warned his congregation to " beware of thorough - paced doctrine , that doctrine which , coming in at one ear , paces through the head , and goes out at the other . " Nothing worse than this appearing in ...
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... remarkable for what they have suffered , than for what they have achieved ; and volumes have been written only to enumerate the mi- series of the learned , and relate their unhappy lives , and untimely deaths . To these mournful ...
... remarkable for what they have suffered , than for what they have achieved ; and volumes have been written only to enumerate the mi- series of the learned , and relate their unhappy lives , and untimely deaths . To these mournful ...
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... remarkable by the dissolution of a mar- riage solemnized in the face of the church . Sulmon's Review . The following protest is registered in the books of the house of lords . " Dissentient , Because we conceive that this is the first ...
... remarkable by the dissolution of a mar- riage solemnized in the face of the church . Sulmon's Review . The following protest is registered in the books of the house of lords . " Dissentient , Because we conceive that this is the first ...
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