Hudibras: A Poem in Three Cantos, Volume 1Rickaby, 1793 |
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... fome useful or entertaining book . Mr. Jefferies's family was of this fort , fituated in a re- tired part of the country , furrounded by bad roads , the maf- ter of it refiding constantly in Worcestershire . Here Mr. Butler had the ...
... fome useful or entertaining book . Mr. Jefferies's family was of this fort , fituated in a re- tired part of the country , furrounded by bad roads , the maf- ter of it refiding constantly in Worcestershire . Here Mr. Butler had the ...
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A Poem in Three Cantos Samuel I Butler. After continuing fome time in this fervice , he was recom- mended to Elizabeth Countefs of Kent , who lived at Wrest , in Bedfordshire . Here he enjoyed a literary retreat during great part of the ...
A Poem in Three Cantos Samuel I Butler. After continuing fome time in this fervice , he was recom- mended to Elizabeth Countefs of Kent , who lived at Wrest , in Bedfordshire . Here he enjoyed a literary retreat during great part of the ...
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... fome particularities in the character of that eminent scholar . Lord Dorfet is faid to have first introduced Hudibras to court . - November 11 , 1662 , the author obtained an impri- matur , figned J. Berkenhead , for printing his poem ...
... fome particularities in the character of that eminent scholar . Lord Dorfet is faid to have first introduced Hudibras to court . - November 11 , 1662 , the author obtained an impri- matur , figned J. Berkenhead , for printing his poem ...
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... fome variation in his MS . common - place book . To think how Spencer died , how Cowley mourn'd , How Butler's faith and service were return'd . + In the fame MS . he fays , " wit is very chargeable , and not to be maintained in its ...
... fome variation in his MS . common - place book . To think how Spencer died , how Cowley mourn'd , How Butler's faith and service were return'd . + In the fame MS . he fays , " wit is very chargeable , and not to be maintained in its ...
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... fome time in France , probably when Lewis XIV . was in the height of his glory and vanity : however , neither the language nor manners of Paris were pleafing to our modest poet ; fome of his observations may be amusing , I fhall ...
... fome time in France , probably when Lewis XIV . was in the height of his glory and vanity : however , neither the language nor manners of Paris were pleafing to our modest poet ; fome of his observations may be amusing , I fhall ...
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