Hudibras: A Poem, in Three Cantos, Volume 1, Issue 1Rickaby, 1793 - 317 pages |
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... fome time in the neigh- bourhood of his own family and friends : and having lei- fure for indulging his inclinations for learning , he probably improved himself very much , not only in the abstruser branches of it , but in the polite ...
... fome time in the neigh- bourhood of his own family and friends : and having lei- fure for indulging his inclinations for learning , he probably improved himself very much , not only in the abstruser branches of it , but in the polite ...
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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 obfervations 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 obfervations may be amusing , I fhall ...
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A Poem, in Three Cantos Samuel Butler. pointed : to this fome have attributed his fevere strictures upon the profeffors of the law ; but if his censures be proper- ly confidered , they will be found to bear hard only upon the difgraceful ...
A Poem, in Three Cantos Samuel Butler. pointed : to this fome have attributed his fevere strictures upon the profeffors of the law ; but if his censures be proper- ly confidered , they will be found to bear hard only upon the difgraceful ...
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