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We may suppose too that there was nothing criminal in his proceeding ; as some of the persons whose names appear before these publications , are known to have filled the highest offices in the company of Stationers with reputation ...
We may suppose too that there was nothing criminal in his proceeding ; as some of the persons whose names appear before these publications , are known to have filled the highest offices in the company of Stationers with reputation ...
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1 EVERY circumstance that relates to those persons whose writings we admire , awakens and interests our curiosity . The time and place of their birth , their education and gradual attainments , the dates of their productions and the ...
1 EVERY circumstance that relates to those persons whose writings we admire , awakens and interests our curiosity . The time and place of their birth , their education and gradual attainments , the dates of their productions and the ...
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T the trees under whose shade ihey once reposed , and wish to see and to converse with those sages , whose labours have added strength to virtue , and efficacy to truth . Shakspeare above all writers , since the days of Homer ...
T the trees under whose shade ihey once reposed , and wish to see and to converse with those sages , whose labours have added strength to virtue , and efficacy to truth . Shakspeare above all writers , since the days of Homer ...
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... whose buliness it was to compofe an annual panegyrick on the Lord Mayor , and to write verses for the pagcants : an office which has been discontinued since the death of Elkanah Settle but we find no trace of our author , or.
... whose buliness it was to compofe an annual panegyrick on the Lord Mayor , and to write verses for the pagcants : an office which has been discontinued since the death of Elkanah Settle but we find no trace of our author , or.
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66 But that fame gentle spirit , from whose pen 66 Large streames of honnie and sweet néclar flow , 66 Scorning the boldness of fuch base - born men , 66 Which dare their follies forth so ralblic throwe , 66 Doth rather choose to fit in ...
66 But that fame gentle spirit , from whose pen 66 Large streames of honnie and sweet néclar flow , 66 Scorning the boldness of fuch base - born men , 66 Which dare their follies forth so ralblic throwe , 66 Doth rather choose to fit in ...
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