Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... fortune or alliance , by his usefulness and dexterity became Secretary of State , and who died at forty - seven , after having not only stood long in the highest rank of wit and literature , but filled one of the most important offices ...
... fortune or alliance , by his usefulness and dexterity became Secretary of State , and who died at forty - seven , after having not only stood long in the highest rank of wit and literature , but filled one of the most important offices ...
Page 37
... fortune ; when , as Swift observes , he became a statesman , and saw poets waiting at his levée , it was no wonder that praise was accumulated upon him . Much likewise may be more honourably ascribed to his personal character : he who ...
... fortune ; when , as Swift observes , he became a statesman , and saw poets waiting at his levée , it was no wonder that praise was accumulated upon him . Much likewise may be more honourably ascribed to his personal character : he who ...
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... fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness : and that those whom the splendour of their rank , or the extent of their capacity , has placed upon the summit of human life , have not often given any just occasion ...
... fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness : and that those whom the splendour of their rank , or the extent of their capacity , has placed upon the summit of human life , have not often given any just occasion ...
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... fortune , which was very great , was repaid her , and who having , as well as her husband , the liberty of making another choice , she in a short time married Colonel Brett . While the Earl of Macclesfield was prosecuting this affair ...
... fortune , which was very great , was repaid her , and who having , as well as her husband , the liberty of making another choice , she in a short time married Colonel Brett . While the Earl of Macclesfield was prosecuting this affair ...
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... fortune , which would have been very little diminished by the expenses which the care of her child could have brought upon her . It was therefore not likely that she would be wicked without temptation ; that she would look upon her son ...
... fortune , which would have been very little diminished by the expenses which the care of her child could have brought upon her . It was therefore not likely that she would be wicked without temptation ; that she would look upon her son ...
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