The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations; an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, Grounded on Original and Authentick Documents; and a Collection of His Letters, the Greater Part of which Has Never Before Been Published, Volume 2T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... LORD HIGH TREASURER OF ENGLAND , ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL , AND KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER , & c . a MY LORD , THE gratitude of poets is so troublesome a virtue to great men , that you are ...
... LORD HIGH TREASURER OF ENGLAND , ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL , AND KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER , & c . a MY LORD , THE gratitude of poets is so troublesome a virtue to great men , that you are ...
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... Lord Clifford saw he must lose the white staff , [ June 1673 , ] he went to the Duke of Buckingham , who had contributed much to the procuring it for him , and told him he brought him the first notice that he was to lose that place to ...
... Lord Clifford saw he must lose the white staff , [ June 1673 , ] he went to the Duke of Buckingham , who had contributed much to the procuring it for him , and told him he brought him the first notice that he was to lose that place to ...
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... Lord , is your just commendation , that you have wrought out yourself a way to glory by those very means that were designed for your destruction ; you have not only restored , but advanced the revenues of your Master , without grievance ...
... Lord , is your just commendation , that you have wrought out yourself a way to glory by those very means that were designed for your destruction ; you have not only restored , but advanced the revenues of your Master , without grievance ...
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... Lord , are the proper virtues of a noble Englishman , as indeed they are properly English virtues ; no people in the world being capable of using them but we , who have the happiness to be born under so equal and so well - poised a ...
... Lord , are the proper virtues of a noble Englishman , as indeed they are properly English virtues ; no people in the world being capable of using them but we , who have the happiness to be born under so equal and so well - poised a ...
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... Lord , are considerations which I should not pass so lightly over , had I room to manage them as they deserve ; for no man can be so inconsiderable in a nation , as not to have a Antony Ashley Cooper , Earl of Shaftesbury , is here ...
... Lord , are considerations which I should not pass so lightly over , had I room to manage them as they deserve ; for no man can be so inconsiderable in a nation , as not to have a Antony Ashley Cooper , Earl of Shaftesbury , is here ...
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