Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. J. Philips. WalshSamuel Johnson A. Miller, 1800 |
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... LORD BISHOP OF LINCOLN , AND DEAN OF WESTMINSTER . MY LORD , MIGHT well fear , left thefe my rude and unpolished lines fhould offend your ; committed by a Child , than cenfure them . Howfoever I defire your Lordship's pardon , for ...
... LORD BISHOP OF LINCOLN , AND DEAN OF WESTMINSTER . MY LORD , MIGHT well fear , left thefe my rude and unpolished lines fhould offend your ; committed by a Child , than cenfure them . Howfoever I defire your Lordship's pardon , for ...
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... LORD CARLETON , VISCOUNT DORCHESTER , Late Principal Secretary of State . TH ' infernal fifters did a council call Of all the fiends , to the black Stygian hall ; The dire Tartarian monsters , hating light , Begot by difmal Erebus and ...
... LORD CARLETON , VISCOUNT DORCHESTER , Late Principal Secretary of State . TH ' infernal fifters did a council call Of all the fiends , to the black Stygian hall ; The dire Tartarian monsters , hating light , Begot by difmal Erebus and ...
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... Lord Coke ! May he ( though all his writings grow as foon As Butter's out of cftimation ) Get him a poet's name , and fo ne'er come Into a ferjeant's or dead judge's room ! May he become fome poor phyfician's prey , Who keeps men with ...
... Lord Coke ! May he ( though all his writings grow as foon As Butter's out of cftimation ) Get him a poet's name , and fo ne'er come Into a ferjeant's or dead judge's room ! May he become fome poor phyfician's prey , Who keeps men with ...
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... LORD FALKLAND , FOR HIS SAFE RETURN FROM THE NORTHERN EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SCOTS . GREAT is thy charge , O North ! be wife and just , England commits her Falkland to thy trust ; Return him fafe ; Learning would rather choofe Her ...
... LORD FALKLAND , FOR HIS SAFE RETURN FROM THE NORTHERN EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SCOTS . GREAT is thy charge , O North ! be wife and just , England commits her Falkland to thy trust ; Return him fafe ; Learning would rather choofe Her ...
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... lord and thine : Thy lord , which is to all as good and free , As thou , kind flood ! to thine own banks canft be . How does thy peaceful back difdain to bear The rebels ' bufy pride at Weftminster ! Thou , who thyfelf doft without ...
... lord and thine : Thy lord , which is to all as good and free , As thou , kind flood ! to thine own banks canft be . How does thy peaceful back difdain to bear The rebels ' bufy pride at Weftminster ! Thou , who thyfelf doft without ...
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