The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... appeared against him , and argued with Coke , Attorney - General , and Fle- ming , Solicitor - General , on the impropriety of his con- duct . This behaviour , which it must be confessed does him very little honour , made him at the ...
... appeared against him , and argued with Coke , Attorney - General , and Fle- ming , Solicitor - General , on the impropriety of his con- duct . This behaviour , which it must be confessed does him very little honour , made him at the ...
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... appeared in 1666 . They were sought after , with much avidity , by men of taste ; and as furiously condemned , by the authors whom the poet had criticized . To them succeeded his Epistles : and his Art Poetique , that complete code of ...
... appeared in 1666 . They were sought after , with much avidity , by men of taste ; and as furiously condemned , by the authors whom the poet had criticized . To them succeeded his Epistles : and his Art Poetique , that complete code of ...
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... appeared at court , except to receive the commands of the king respecting his history . He passed the remainder of his days in retirement , either in town or country . He lamented , in his latter years , the misfor- tunes which ...
... appeared at court , except to receive the commands of the king respecting his history . He passed the remainder of his days in retirement , either in town or country . He lamented , in his latter years , the misfor- tunes which ...
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... appeared to announce his own discomfiture , availed himself of an erroneous move- ment of the enemy , and on the 3d of September , 1651 , gained the most signal victory which that age had wit- nessed . On the same day of the ensuing ...
... appeared to announce his own discomfiture , availed himself of an erroneous move- ment of the enemy , and on the 3d of September , 1651 , gained the most signal victory which that age had wit- nessed . On the same day of the ensuing ...
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... appeared with an eclat which exposed the author to a long and violent persecution . All classes combined to condemn a work , which , to use the expression of a lively woman , betrayed every one's secret . The Journals de- cried it , the ...
... appeared with an eclat which exposed the author to a long and violent persecution . All classes combined to condemn a work , which , to use the expression of a lively woman , betrayed every one's secret . The Journals de- cried it , the ...
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