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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical ... - Page 240
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Characters of Eminent Men in the Reigns of Charles I and II: Including the ...

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1793 - 268 pages
...life, spent with less severity and exactness than it ought to have been, he died with the greatest remorse for that licence, and with the greatest manifestation...christianity, that his best friends could desire. Life* I. 36. * Lord Clarendon was often heard to say, " that if he had any thing good in him, in his...
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Specimens of the early English poets [ed. by G. Ellis.]. To which ..., Volume 3

English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...spent with less severity " and exactness than they ought to have been, he died with " the greatest remorse for that licence, and with the greatest "...Christianity, that his best friends could " desire." Carew is generally supposed to have died young in 1B39, and I have therefore placed his birth about...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 2

1802 - 522 pages
...equal, if 'not superior to any ofthat time: butins glory -was, that after fifty years of lib lile, spent with less severity or exactness than it ought to have been, he died with the greatest remorse for that licence, and with the greatest manifestation for Christianity, that his...
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Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed an ..., Volume 3

George Ellis - 1803 - 474 pages
...or " exactness than they ought to have been, he died with the " greatest remorse for that license, and with the greatest " manifestation of Christianity that his best friends could " desire." Carew is generally supposed to have died young in 1639, and I have therefore placed his birth about...
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The lyre of love [ed. by P.L. Courtier].

Lyre - 1806 - 208 pages
...dissipation to which he had too frequently abandoned himself. " He died (says Clarendon) with the greatest remorse for that licence, and with the greatest manifestation...Christianity that his best friends could desire." This happened in the year 1634. Now that the Winter's gone, the Earth hath lost Her snow-white robes;...
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Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions ..., Volumes 9-10

Sir Egerton Brydges - 1809 - 914 pages
...spiced, were at least equal, if not superior to any of that time. But his glory was that after fifty years of his life spent with less severity or exactness than it ought to have been, he died with the greatest remorse for that licence, and with the greatest manifestation of Christianity, that his...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 562 pages
...only the laudable care he employed in bringing his verses to a higher degree of refinement than any of his contemporaries. His death is said to have taken...licentiousness of some of his poems, which, however, his editors have hitherto persisted in handing down to posterity. It does not appear that any of his...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 728 pages
...spread, were at least equal, if not superior to any of that time : but his glory was, that after ffty years of his life spent with less severity or exactness...licentiousness of some of his poems, which, however, his editors have hitherto persisted in handing down to posterity. It does not appear that any of his...
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The Ancient British Drama ...

Walter Scott - 1810 - 620 pages
...if not superior, to any of that time : but his glory was, that after fifty years of his life, speilt with less severity or exactness than it ought to have been, he died with the greatest remorse for that license, and with the greatest manifestation of Christianity that his...
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Biographia Dramatica: pt.1. Authors and Actors: A-H

David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 472 pages
...spread, were at least equal, if not superior, to any at that time : but his glory was, that, after fifty years of his life, .spent with less severity or exactness than it ought to have been, he died with the greatest remorse for CAR " that license, and with the great" est manifestation of Christianity...
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