LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... nights in the week . In the year 1647 , his " Mistress " was published ; for he imagined , as he de- clared in his preface to a subsequent edition , that " poets are scarce thought " freemen of their company without paying some duties ...
... nights in the week . In the year 1647 , his " Mistress " was published ; for he imagined , as he de- clared in his preface to a subsequent edition , that " poets are scarce thought " freemen of their company without paying some duties ...
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... nights in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country and steps into a prison , will be willing enough to retire to some place of quiet , and of safety . Yet let neither our reverence for a genius , nor our pity for a sufferer ...
... nights in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country and steps into a prison , will be willing enough to retire to some place of quiet , and of safety . Yet let neither our reverence for a genius , nor our pity for a sufferer ...
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... night that I came hither I caught so great a cold , with a defluxion . of rheum , as made me keep my chamber ten days . And , two after , had such " a bruise in my ribs with a fall , that I am yet unable to move or turn myself " in my ...
... night that I came hither I caught so great a cold , with a defluxion . of rheum , as made me keep my chamber ten days . And , two after , had such " a bruise in my ribs with a fall , that I am yet unable to move or turn myself " in my ...
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... night . I write this in pain , and can say no more : Verbum sapienti . ” He did not long enjoy the pleasure or suffer the uneasiness of solitude ; for he died at the Porch - house in Chertsey in 1667 , in the 49th year of his age . He ...
... night . I write this in pain , and can say no more : Verbum sapienti . ” He did not long enjoy the pleasure or suffer the uneasiness of solitude ; for he died at the Porch - house in Chertsey in 1667 , in the 49th year of his age . He ...
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... night of the year , have something in them too scholastic , they are not inelegant : This twilight of two years , nor past nor next , Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like , of stuff and form perplext , Whose what ...
... night of the year , have something in them too scholastic , they are not inelegant : This twilight of two years , nor past nor next , Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like , of stuff and form perplext , Whose what ...
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