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In this part of his life it was that he was known to Clarendon , among the rest of the men who were eminent in that age for genius and literature ; but known so little to his advantage , that they who read his character will not much ...
In this part of his life it was that he was known to Clarendon , among the rest of the men who were eminent in that age for genius and literature ; but known so little to his advantage , that they who read his character will not much ...
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He was very little known till he had obtained a rich wife in the city . ' He obtained a rich wife about the age of three - andtwenty ; an age before which few men are conspicuous much to their advantage . He was known , however , in ...
He was very little known till he had obtained a rich wife in the city . ' He obtained a rich wife about the age of three - andtwenty ; an age before which few men are conspicuous much to their advantage . He was known , however , in ...
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The best are from an unknown hand , which will perhaps lose somewhat of their praise when the author is known to be Jeffreys . Cato had yet other honours . It was censured as a party - play by a Scholar of Oxford , and defended in a ...
The best are from an unknown hand , which will perhaps lose somewhat of their praise when the author is known to be Jeffreys . Cato had yet other honours . It was censured as a party - play by a Scholar of Oxford , and defended in a ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2011 |
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