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... hope , like Don Quixote , that the historian of his actions might find him some illustrious alliance . He is supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner near Charing Cross , who sent him for ...
... hope , like Don Quixote , that the historian of his actions might find him some illustrious alliance . He is supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner near Charing Cross , who sent him for ...
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... hope of a new academy : - " In happy chains our daring language bound , Shall sport no more in arbitrary sound . " Whether the similitude of those passages , which exhibit the same thought on the same occasion , proceeded from accident ...
... hope of a new academy : - " In happy chains our daring language bound , Shall sport no more in arbitrary sound . " Whether the similitude of those passages , which exhibit the same thought on the same occasion , proceeded from accident ...
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... hope that they might , by driving the Whigs from court and from power , gratify at once the queen and the people . There was now a call for writers , who might convey intelligence of past abuses , and show the waste of public money ...
... hope that they might , by driving the Whigs from court and from power , gratify at once the queen and the people . There was now a call for writers , who might convey intelligence of past abuses , and show the waste of public money ...
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... hope for any other notice than such as is bestowed on diligence and inquiry . Among all the efforts of early genius , which literary history records , I doubt whether any one can be produced that more sur- passes the common limits of ...
... hope for any other notice than such as is bestowed on diligence and inquiry . Among all the efforts of early genius , which literary history records , I doubt whether any one can be produced that more sur- passes the common limits of ...
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... hope and resignation gives an ele- vation and dignity to disappointed love , which images merely natural cannot bestow . The gloom of a convent strikes the imagination with far greater force than the solitude of a grove . This piece was ...
... hope and resignation gives an ele- vation and dignity to disappointed love , which images merely natural cannot bestow . The gloom of a convent strikes the imagination with far greater force than the solitude of a grove . This piece was ...
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