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... Lady Harriot at Cambridge ( a fellow of a college treat ! ) and spoke verses to her in a gown and cap ! What , the plenipotentiary , so far concerned in the damned peace at Utrecht - the man that makes up half the volume of terse prose ...
... Lady Harriot at Cambridge ( a fellow of a college treat ! ) and spoke verses to her in a gown and cap ! What , the plenipotentiary , so far concerned in the damned peace at Utrecht - the man that makes up half the volume of terse prose ...
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... lady's constancy , is such as must end either in infamy to her , or in disappointment to himself . His Occasionál Poems necessarily lost part of their value , as their occasions , being less remem . bered , raised less emotion . Some of ...
... lady's constancy , is such as must end either in infamy to her , or in disappointment to himself . His Occasionál Poems necessarily lost part of their value , as their occasions , being less remem . bered , raised less emotion . Some of ...
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... ladies ; or easy and common , as Wittol , a tame idiot , Bluff , a swagger . ing coward , and Fondlewife , a jealous puritan ; and the catastrophe arises from a mistake not very probably produced , by marrying a woman in a mask , Yet ...
... ladies ; or easy and common , as Wittol , a tame idiot , Bluff , a swagger . ing coward , and Fondlewife , a jealous puritan ; and the catastrophe arises from a mistake not very probably produced , by marrying a woman in a mask , Yet ...
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... lady afterwards de- tained him with her as the auditor of her ac compts . He often wandered to London , and . amused himself with the conversation of his friends . He died , in 1730 , at Easthamstead in Berkshire , the seat of Lady ...
... lady afterwards de- tained him with her as the auditor of her ac compts . He often wandered to London , and . amused himself with the conversation of his friends . He died , in 1730 , at Easthamstead in Berkshire , the seat of Lady ...
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... Lady , in token of respect , Gratefulness , and mutual Esteem . I shall with pleasure take upon me to draw this amiable , quiet , deserving , unpretending Christian and Philosophical character , in his Epitaph . There truth may be ...
... Lady , in token of respect , Gratefulness , and mutual Esteem . I shall with pleasure take upon me to draw this amiable , quiet , deserving , unpretending Christian and Philosophical character , in his Epitaph . There truth may be ...
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