Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... obtained ( in 1699 ) a pension of three hundred pounds a year , that he might be enabled to travel . He stayed a year at Blois , probably to learn the French language ; and then proceeded in his journey to Italy , which he surveyed with ...
... obtained ( in 1699 ) a pension of three hundred pounds a year , that he might be enabled to travel . He stayed a year at Blois , probably to learn the French language ; and then proceeded in his journey to Italy , which he surveyed with ...
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... obtain . This species of instruction was continued , and perhaps advanced , by the French ; among whom La Bruyère's " Manners of the Age " ( though , as Boileau remarked , it is written without connection ) certainly deserves praise for ...
... obtain . This species of instruction was continued , and perhaps advanced , by the French ; among whom La Bruyère's " Manners of the Age " ( though , as Boileau remarked , it is written without connection ) certainly deserves praise for ...
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... obtained the recommendation , or how long , and in what manner he lived in the family , I know not . His advances at first were certainly timorous , but grew bolder as his reputation and influence increased ; till at last the lady was ...
... obtained the recommendation , or how long , and in what manner he lived in the family , I know not . His advances at first were certainly timorous , but grew bolder as his reputation and influence increased ; till at last the lady was ...
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... obtain a bishopric ; " for , " said he , “ I always thought him a priest in his heart . " That Pope should have thought this conjecture of Tonson worth remembrance , is a proof - but indeed , so far as I have found , the only proof ...
... obtain a bishopric ; " for , " said he , “ I always thought him a priest in his heart . " That Pope should have thought this conjecture of Tonson worth remembrance , is a proof - but indeed , so far as I have found , the only proof ...
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... obtained from the servile timidity of his sober hours . He that feels oppres- sion from the presence of those to whom he knows himself superior will desire to set loose his powers of conversa- tion ; and who that ever asked succours ...
... obtained from the servile timidity of his sober hours . He that feels oppres- sion from the presence of those to whom he knows himself superior will desire to set loose his powers of conversa- tion ; and who that ever asked succours ...
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