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The stock rose in its price ; and he for a while thought himself the Lord of thousands . But this dream of happiness did not last long , and he seems to have waked soon enough to get clear with the loss only of what he once thought ...
The stock rose in its price ; and he for a while thought himself the Lord of thousands . But this dream of happiness did not last long , and he seems to have waked soon enough to get clear with the loss only of what he once thought ...
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His criticism , however , was commonly just ; what he thought , he thought rightly ; and his remarks were recommended by his coolness and candour . In him Pope had the first experience of a critick without malevolence , who thought it ...
His criticism , however , was commonly just ; what he thought , he thought rightly ; and his remarks were recommended by his coolness and candour . In him Pope had the first experience of a critick without malevolence , who thought it ...
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injudicious waste of money upon a new house , so much lessened his fortune , that Gray thought himself too poor to study the law . He therefore retired to Cambridge , where he soon after became Bachelor of Civil Law ; and where ...
injudicious waste of money upon a new house , so much lessened his fortune , that Gray thought himself too poor to study the law . He therefore retired to Cambridge , where he soon after became Bachelor of Civil Law ; and where ...
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