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Like him he was a poet, and a favourer of poets.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

His hardy principles were considered as a satire on arbitrary power, and Hobbes himself as a concealed favourer of democracy.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

From the time of the Restoration, he had been a favourer of monarchy, perhaps more so, because the opinion divided him from his own family.

From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by Saintsbury, George

Your favourer, poor Mrs. Norton, thinks you know nothing of the pert creature's writing.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Richardson, Samuel

Some of the bitter persecutors denounced him to the pope as a favourer of heretics, and he was summoned to Rome, but queen Mary, by particular entreaty, procured his stay.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John