Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Reviewed, Volume 4T. Bensley, 1816 - English literature |
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... died with them ! A catalogue of Mr. Heber's stupendous library , with a few notes from his capacious and unequalled mind , might do all that is wanted . But when will he have leisure for it ? : Or is it to be expected that any thing so vi.
... died with them ! A catalogue of Mr. Heber's stupendous library , with a few notes from his capacious and unequalled mind , might do all that is wanted . But when will he have leisure for it ? : Or is it to be expected that any thing so vi.
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... died on the 16th of January , 1598. See Mr. Todd's account of his life . + Drayton so poetised his name : and although he wrote no elegy on Eli- zabeth , yet he put forth a poem congratulatory on the accession of James . Licia : or ...
... died on the 16th of January , 1598. See Mr. Todd's account of his life . + Drayton so poetised his name : and although he wrote no elegy on Eli- zabeth , yet he put forth a poem congratulatory on the accession of James . Licia : or ...
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... called it an unparalleled insolence , and a vile tramp- ling upon royal ashes , & c . others of better figure have so be- moaned the Queen , as if the Monarchy and the Church had died with her nay , some have challenged the faction 69.
... called it an unparalleled insolence , and a vile tramp- ling upon royal ashes , & c . others of better figure have so be- moaned the Queen , as if the Monarchy and the Church had died with her nay , some have challenged the faction 69.
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... died with her nay , some have challenged the faction ( as they call them ) to tell where is the Pretender , or where is the danger of him , as if his not coming now were an argument that he never meant it . " This day the Lord ...
... died with her nay , some have challenged the faction ( as they call them ) to tell where is the Pretender , or where is the danger of him , as if his not coming now were an argument that he never meant it . " This day the Lord ...
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... died at his College of Queens on Friday last . Dr. Hody has his Grace's option of the Archdeaconry of Oxford ; but who has the dignities in the church of St. David , I do not hear . The competitors for the Provostship are Dr. Lancaster ...
... died at his College of Queens on Friday last . Dr. Hody has his Grace's option of the Archdeaconry of Oxford ; but who has the dignities in the church of St. David , I do not hear . The competitors for the Provostship are Dr. Lancaster ...
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