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... fortune ; and dying whilft our Author was in a state of infancy , left him heir to 3500 1. a - year . The care of young Waller's education now devol- He now lived more expensively than usual , was known A iij THE LIFE OF To Mr Granville ...
... fortune ; and dying whilft our Author was in a state of infancy , left him heir to 3500 1. a - year . The care of young Waller's education now devol- He now lived more expensively than usual , was known A iij THE LIFE OF To Mr Granville ...
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... fortune and eftate , and of admirable parts " and faculties of wit and eloquence , and of an in " timate conversation and familiaritywith those who " had that reputation . He had , from the beginning " of the parliament , been looked ...
... fortune and eftate , and of admirable parts " and faculties of wit and eloquence , and of an in " timate conversation and familiaritywith those who " had that reputation . He had , from the beginning " of the parliament , been looked ...
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... fortune , and too wary 66 a nature , to engage himself in designs of danger or " hazard . " Mr. Waller had a brother - in - law , one Mr. Tom- " kins , who had married his fifter , and was Clerk of " the Queen's Council , of very good ...
... fortune , and too wary 66 a nature , to engage himself in designs of danger or " hazard . " Mr. Waller had a brother - in - law , one Mr. Tom- " kins , who had married his fifter , and was Clerk of " the Queen's Council , of very good ...
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... fortune with the King , upon " the death of her husband , who was killed at Edge- ' hill ; and she having in few days difpatched her bu- " finefs there , and being ready to return , Sir Nicho- " las Crifp came to the King , and befought ...
... fortune with the King , upon " the death of her husband , who was killed at Edge- ' hill ; and she having in few days difpatched her bu- " finefs there , and being ready to return , Sir Nicho- " las Crifp came to the King , and befought ...
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... fortune to have an alliance and friendship with Dr. Morley , who had affifted and inftructed him in the reading many good books , to which his natural " parts and promptitude inclined him , especially the " Poets ; and at the age when ...
... fortune to have an alliance and friendship with Dr. Morley , who had affifted and inftructed him in the reading many good books , to which his natural " parts and promptitude inclined him , especially the " Poets ; and at the age when ...
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Page 99 - A narrow compafs! and yet there Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair ; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the reft the fun goes round. XXX. THE FALL.
Page 35 - virtues which in parents fhine 15 Make not like progrefs thro' the line. *Tis not from whom, but where we live: The place does oft' thofe graces give. Great Julius, on the mountains bred, A flock perhaps, or herd had led.
Page xliii - old coins, one muft go to an antiquary to underftand their true meaning and value. Such advances may a great genius make when it undertakes any thing in earneft. Some painters will hit the chief lines and mafterftrokes of a face fo truly, that thro' all the differences of age the
Page xliii - out. Were we to judge barely by the wording, we could not know what was wrote at twenty, and what at fourfcore. He complains, indeed, of a tide of words that comes in upon the Englifh poet, and overflows whatever
Page 41 - And, without planting, drink of ev'ry vine. To dig for wealth we weary not our limbs; Gold, tho' the heavieft metal, hither fwims. Ours is the harveft where the Indians mow ; We plough the deep, and reap what others
Page 45 - Brutus thought to break their yoke, But cut the bond of union with that ftroke. That fun once fet, a thoufand meaner ftars Gave a dim light to violence and wars; To fuch a tempeft as now threatens all,
Page 133 - there as much as ever diftempered with the fame fatal affection for play, which engaged him in one adventure that well deferves to be related. As he returned to his lodgings from a gaming-table he was attacked in the dark by three ruffians, who were employed to
Page xxxiii - and in jeft, and therefore very grateful to all kind " of company, where he was not the lefs efteemed *' for being very rich. He had been even nurfed in *' parliaments, where he fat when he was very young,
Page 85 - Ah, cruel Nymph! from whom her humble fwain Flies for relief unto the raging main, And from the winds and tempefts does expect A milder fate than from her cold neglect! Yet there he '11 pray that the unkind may prove