The lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Rivington, 1820 |
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... Prior there- fore continued to act without a title till the Duke returned next year to England , and then he assum -ed the style and dignity of ambassador . 9 But , while he continued in appearance a private 8 PRIOR .
... Prior there- fore continued to act without a title till the Duke returned next year to England , and then he assum -ed the style and dignity of ambassador . 9 But , while he continued in appearance a private 8 PRIOR .
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... appearance , to be very deficient in candour ; yet , nobody can live long without knowing that falsehoods of conveni- ence or vanity , falsehoods from which no evil im- mediately visible ensues , except the general degra dation of human ...
... appearance , to be very deficient in candour ; yet , nobody can live long without knowing that falsehoods of conveni- ence or vanity , falsehoods from which no evil im- mediately visible ensues , except the general degra dation of human ...
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... appearance of tendency to puritanical malignity . This danger , however , was worn away by time ; and Collier , a fierce and implacable nonjuror , knew that an attack upon the theatre would never make him suspected for a puritan ; he ...
... appearance of tendency to puritanical malignity . This danger , however , was worn away by time ; and Collier , a fierce and implacable nonjuror , knew that an attack upon the theatre would never make him suspected for a puritan ; he ...
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... appeared more than in his last moments : He had a conscious Sa- tisfaction ( no doubt ) in acting right , in feeling himself honest , true , and unpretending to more than was his own . So he dyed , as he lived , with that secret , yet ...
... appeared more than in his last moments : He had a conscious Sa- tisfaction ( no doubt ) in acting right , in feeling himself honest , true , and unpretending to more than was his own . So he dyed , as he lived , with that secret , yet ...
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... appeared against it in the form of criticism ; and Griffin , a player , in con- junction with Mr. Theobald , a man afterwards more remarkable , produced a pamphlet called " The Key to the What d'ye call it ; " which , says Gay , " calls ...
... appeared against it in the form of criticism ; and Griffin , a player , in con- junction with Mr. Theobald , a man afterwards more remarkable , produced a pamphlet called " The Key to the What d'ye call it ; " which , says Gay , " calls ...
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