Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... occasions the master would do more than laugh ; yet , if tradition may be credited , he often struggled hard to force or surprise the garrison . The master , when Pigot was a schoolboy , was barred out at Lichfield ; and the whole ...
... occasions the master would do more than laugh ; yet , if tradition may be credited , he often struggled hard to force or surprise the garrison . The master , when Pigot was a schoolboy , was barred out at Lichfield ; and the whole ...
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... occasion demanded . He had read with critical eyes the important volume of human life , and knew the heart of man , from the depths of stratagem to the surface of af- fectation . What he knew he could easily communicate . ' This ...
... occasion demanded . He had read with critical eyes the important volume of human life , and knew the heart of man , from the depths of stratagem to the surface of af- fectation . What he knew he could easily communicate . ' This ...
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... occasion , I desire to ask these questions : -Of all our countrymen , which do we love most , those whom we know , or those whom we know not ? And of those whom we know , which do we cherish most , our friends or our enemies ? And of ...
... occasion , I desire to ask these questions : -Of all our countrymen , which do we love most , those whom we know , or those whom we know not ? And of those whom we know , which do we cherish most , our friends or our enemies ? And of ...
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Samuel Johnson. " If he had seen her in the open field , what occasion had he to track her when he had so many Numidian dogs at his heels , which , with one halloo , he might have set upon her haunches ? If he did not see her in the open ...
Samuel Johnson. " If he had seen her in the open field , what occasion had he to track her when he had so many Numidian dogs at his heels , which , with one halloo , he might have set upon her haunches ? If he did not see her in the open ...
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... occasion ; that he should be angry with his son for intruding there ; then that he should leave this hall upon the pretence of sleep , give himself the mortal wound in his bedchamber , and then be brought back into that hall to expire ...
... occasion ; that he should be angry with his son for intruding there ; then that he should leave this hall upon the pretence of sleep , give himself the mortal wound in his bedchamber , and then be brought back into that hall to expire ...
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