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... lived about the court , where he contracted friendships with feveral gentlemen of fashion and diftinction , efpe- cially with Endymion Porter efquire , one of the gentlemen of the bedchamber to King Charles I. while he refided at court ...
... lived about the court , where he contracted friendships with feveral gentlemen of fashion and diftinction , efpe- cially with Endymion Porter efquire , one of the gentlemen of the bedchamber to King Charles I. while he refided at court ...
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... lived in Wood's time , informed him of this circumftance , who gave his picture to the school gallery there , where it now hangs , fhewing • Athen . Oxon . vol . ii . p . 393 . him to have had a quick and smart countenance . him IO The ...
... lived in Wood's time , informed him of this circumftance , who gave his picture to the school gallery there , where it now hangs , fhewing • Athen . Oxon . vol . ii . p . 393 . him to have had a quick and smart countenance . him IO The ...
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... 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 Jofeph , with Annotations , a Tragedy , printed 4to . Lond . 1640 , and dedicated ...
... 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 Jofeph , with Annotations , a Tragedy , printed 4to . Lond . 1640 , and dedicated ...
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... lived there , we don't find . Dr. William Laud , afterwards archbishop of Canterbury , prefiding over that house , conceived a great affection for our author , and was willing to cherish and improve thofe promifing abilities ear- ly ...
... lived there , we don't find . Dr. William Laud , afterwards archbishop of Canterbury , prefiding over that house , conceived a great affection for our author , and was willing to cherish and improve thofe promifing abilities ear- ly ...
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... lived to fee the unhappy death of her Lord ; fhe witnessed her exiled fons , not only oppreffed with want , but obliged to quit France , at the remon- ftrance of Cromwel's ambaffador ; fhe herself was loaded with poverty , and as ...
... lived to fee the unhappy death of her Lord ; fhe witnessed her exiled fons , not only oppreffed with want , but obliged to quit France , at the remon- ftrance of Cromwel's ambaffador ; fhe herself was loaded with poverty , and as ...
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