Kentish Poets. A series of writers in English poetry, natives or residents in the county of Kent; with specimens of their compositions and some account of their lives and writings. By R. F. |
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Page 204
My best commodity is the conversation of certain gentlemen , and their vulgar
very pure and correct ; so that here we have good means to learn to speak well
and to do ill . " During his residence at Florence the following adventure
happened to ...
My best commodity is the conversation of certain gentlemen , and their vulgar
very pure and correct ; so that here we have good means to learn to speak well
and to do ill . " During his residence at Florence the following adventure
happened to ...
Page 49
Richard Lovelace died in a very mean lodging in Gunpowder - alley near Shoe -
lane , and was buried at the west end of St. Bride's Church , in 1658 . Aubrey's
account in a great measure confirms the foregoing , and is too curious to be ...
Richard Lovelace died in a very mean lodging in Gunpowder - alley near Shoe -
lane , and was buried at the west end of St. Bride's Church , in 1658 . Aubrey's
account in a great measure confirms the foregoing , and is too curious to be ...
Page 179
Some of his biographers assert that his pecuniary means in the early part of life
were confined ; this may be doubted : from the time of his marriage he was
certainly a resident at Bromley , which from its vicinity to London afforded him the
...
Some of his biographers assert that his pecuniary means in the early part of life
were confined ; this may be doubted : from the time of his marriage he was
certainly a resident at Bromley , which from its vicinity to London afforded him the
...
Page 237
As the means of retaining the languages she had acquired , it was her . custom to
read a portion of each every day , added to which she possessed by nature that
peculiar kind of memory which retains permanently , what it admits with difficulty ...
As the means of retaining the languages she had acquired , it was her . custom to
read a portion of each every day , added to which she possessed by nature that
peculiar kind of memory which retains permanently , what it admits with difficulty ...
Page 277
This was a tender point ; and I found means immediately to divert him from it . He
is with very decent people , in a house most delightfully situated , with a terrace
that overlooks St. James's Park , and a door into it . He was going to dine with an
...
This was a tender point ; and I found means immediately to divert him from it . He
is with very decent people , in a house most delightfully situated , with a terrace
that overlooks St. James's Park , and a door into it . He was going to dine with an
...
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