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... obtained by the preservation of every verse unmingled with another , as a distinct system of sounds ; and this distinctness is obtained and preserved by the artifice of rhyme . The variety of pauses , so much boasted by the lovers of ...
... obtained by the preservation of every verse unmingled with another , as a distinct system of sounds ; and this distinctness is obtained and preserved by the artifice of rhyme . The variety of pauses , so much boasted by the lovers of ...
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... obtained a rich wife in the city . ' He obtained a rich wife about the age of three - and- twenty ; an age before which few men are conspicuous much to their advantage . He was known , however , in parliament and at court : and , if he ...
... obtained a rich wife in the city . ' He obtained a rich wife about the age of three - and- twenty ; an age before which few men are conspicuous much to their advantage . He was known , however , in parliament and at court : and , if he ...
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... obtained for his poems , besides the payment of the bookseller , cannot be known : Mr. Derrick , who consulted some of his relations , was informed that his Fables obtained five hundred pounds from the dutchess of Ormond ; a present not ...
... obtained for his poems , besides the payment of the bookseller , cannot be known : Mr. Derrick , who consulted some of his relations , was informed that his Fables obtained five hundred pounds from the dutchess of Ormond ; a present not ...
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