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Page 136
... afterwards , he found them destroyed , to stop windows , and owns that they hardly deserved a better fate . He was afterwards admitted into the family of the Countess of Kent , where he had the use of a library ; and so much recommended ...
... afterwards , he found them destroyed , to stop windows , and owns that they hardly deserved a better fate . He was afterwards admitted into the family of the Countess of Kent , where he had the use of a library ; and so much recommended ...
Page 402
... afterwards too weak for the malignity of faction . In this poem is a very confident and discriminative character of Spenser , whose work he had then never read . So little sometimes is criticism the effect of judgement . It is necessary ...
... afterwards too weak for the malignity of faction . In this poem is a very confident and discriminative character of Spenser , whose work he had then never read . So little sometimes is criticism the effect of judgement . It is necessary ...
Page 452
... afterwards performed by Rowe . His acquaintance with the great writers of his time appears to have been very general ; but of his intimacy with Addison there is a remarkable proof . It is told , on good authority , that Cato was ...
... afterwards performed by Rowe . His acquaintance with the great writers of his time appears to have been very general ; but of his intimacy with Addison there is a remarkable proof . It is told , on good authority , that Cato was ...
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