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... cause . Not only , therefore , would this whole region suffer more from internal and spontaneous agitation , but it would be the more frequently traversed vindictively from without , and harassed by flying parties from Oxford , or ...
... cause . Not only , therefore , would this whole region suffer more from internal and spontaneous agitation , but it would be the more frequently traversed vindictively from without , and harassed by flying parties from Oxford , or ...
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... cause less weighty than one having for its object to deliver his honoured name from a load of the most brutal ... caused his name to be dishonoured . We now resume the thread of our bio- graphy . The stream of history is centuries in ...
... cause less weighty than one having for its object to deliver his honoured name from a load of the most brutal ... caused his name to be dishonoured . We now resume the thread of our bio- graphy . The stream of history is centuries in ...
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... diary promised some gratification to our curiosity as to the cause of Shakspeare's death . Unfortunately , it does not commence until the year 1617 . Her died in February 1662 , at the age of 68 BIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES.
... diary promised some gratification to our curiosity as to the cause of Shakspeare's death . Unfortunately , it does not commence until the year 1617 . Her died in February 1662 , at the age of 68 BIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES.
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... caused the prevailing ecclesiastical grievances . If they had not , then it was confessedly impertinence to notice them at all . On the other hand , if they had , then , in whatsoever proportion they were responsible for the alleged ...
... caused the prevailing ecclesiastical grievances . If they had not , then it was confessedly impertinence to notice them at all . On the other hand , if they had , then , in whatsoever proportion they were responsible for the alleged ...
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... cause , he received the whole of them into his house , and exerted his political influence very freely on their behalf . Fully to appreciate this behaviour , we must recollect that Milton was not rich , and that no part of his wife's ...
... cause , he received the whole of them into his house , and exerted his political influence very freely on their behalf . Fully to appreciate this behaviour , we must recollect that Milton was not rich , and that no part of his wife's ...
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Page 53 - Sour-eyed disdain, and discord, shall bestrew The union of your bed with weeds so loathly That you shall hate it both : therefore, take heed, As Hymen's lamps shall light you.
Page 287 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 27 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James!
Page 119 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
Page 153 - Thus warranted, the Fellows brought their cause before the Queen's Bench, and before the end of Easter term, 1713, obtained a rule for the Bishop to show cause why a mandamus should not issue to compel him to discharge his judicial functions. Two considerable advantages had been obtained by Bentley about this time ; he had been able to apply the principle of divide...
Page 98 - Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth!
Page 263 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Page 280 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk...
Page 29 - Then to the well-trod stage anon If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Page 381 - ... the same plethoric fulness of thought, the same fine sense of the beautiful — and (I think) the same incapacity for dealing with simple and austere grandeur.