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... fays , that fome disgust was given to him at court , which alienated his affections from it , and determined him , in the civil wars to adhere to the Parliament . Mr. Philips in his Theatrum Poetarum , obferves , that he flood candidate ...
... fays , that fome disgust was given to him at court , which alienated his affections from it , and determined him , in the civil wars to adhere to the Parliament . Mr. Philips in his Theatrum Poetarum , obferves , that he flood candidate ...
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... fays , that in his hiftory , he fhews all the spleen of a mal - content , and had he been preferred to the Bays , as he happened to be dif- appointed , he would have embraced the Royal in- tereft with as much zeal , as he did the ...
... fays , that in his hiftory , he fhews all the spleen of a mal - content , and had he been preferred to the Bays , as he happened to be dif- appointed , he would have embraced the Royal in- tereft with as much zeal , as he did the ...
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... fays , that he could recover no other memoirs of this gentleman , but that he lived in the reign of King Charles the Firft , and obliged the World with a tranflation of a play out of Latin called , Sophompaneas , or the Hiftory of ...
... fays , that he could recover no other memoirs of this gentleman , but that he lived in the reign of King Charles the Firft , and obliged the World with a tranflation of a play out of Latin called , Sophompaneas , or the Hiftory of ...
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... ( fays he ) it is " better to chufe another argument than facred . " For it agrees not with the majesty of facred " things , to be made a play and a fable . It is also 66 a work of very dangerous confequence , to min- gle human inventions ...
... ( fays he ) it is " better to chufe another argument than facred . " For it agrees not with the majesty of facred " things , to be made a play and a fable . It is also 66 a work of very dangerous confequence , to min- gle human inventions ...
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... fays he , was an honour to his country he was born in the year 1583 , and " will be famous to pofterity , in regard of thofe " many excellent pieces he has published .. Int " fome of his writings he defended Armini- " anifm , for which ...
... fays he , was an honour to his country he was born in the year 1583 , and " will be famous to pofterity , in regard of thofe " many excellent pieces he has published .. Int " fome of his writings he defended Armini- " anifm , for which ...
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