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... thoughts and actions , even when , as in Wither , it has to con- tend with unsettled opinions and an invincible ob- stinacy . Without attempting to palliate the fickleness of his political conduct , his resignation under trial may be ...
... thoughts and actions , even when , as in Wither , it has to con- tend with unsettled opinions and an invincible ob- stinacy . Without attempting to palliate the fickleness of his political conduct , his resignation under trial may be ...
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... should occupy the poet's seat in our commonwealth . But it may be pardoned in one who The reader will remember the eloquent passage in Milton , from whence this thought is taken . has drunk , albeit though a little draught , of PREFACE .
... should occupy the poet's seat in our commonwealth . But it may be pardoned in one who The reader will remember the eloquent passage in Milton , from whence this thought is taken . has drunk , albeit though a little draught , of PREFACE .
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... thoughts , and the manners of the fourteenth century , live in his verse . Who , after reading the Tales , does not sleep with the poet in " Southwerk , at the Tabard , " and " be erly for to rise " with the thirty pilgrims in the ...
... thoughts , and the manners of the fourteenth century , live in his verse . Who , after reading the Tales , does not sleep with the poet in " Southwerk , at the Tabard , " and " be erly for to rise " with the thirty pilgrims in the ...
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... thoughts that often " lie too deep for tears , " and as a warbler of poetic prose , " he will be found to have few rivals . 66 Southwell was born about the year 1560 , at St. Faith's in Norfolk , and having been partially educated at ...
... thoughts that often " lie too deep for tears , " and as a warbler of poetic prose , " he will be found to have few rivals . 66 Southwell was born about the year 1560 , at St. Faith's in Norfolk , and having been partially educated at ...
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... 1608. She was the daughter of Thomas Howard , Duke of Norfolk . - See Advertisement to the Triumphs over Death , in the Archaica , vol.i. , 1814 . thoughts to a mean degree , which true honour , ROBERT SOUTHWELL . 11.
... 1608. She was the daughter of Thomas Howard , Duke of Norfolk . - See Advertisement to the Triumphs over Death , in the Archaica , vol.i. , 1814 . thoughts to a mean degree , which true honour , ROBERT SOUTHWELL . 11.
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