Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... told , Mr. Harte dined with Cave , and incidentally praised it . Meeting him again soon after- wards Cave said to Mr. Harte , " You made a man very happy t'other day . " " How could that be ? " asked Harte . " Nobody was there but ...
... told , Mr. Harte dined with Cave , and incidentally praised it . Meeting him again soon after- wards Cave said to Mr. Harte , " You made a man very happy t'other day . " " How could that be ? " asked Harte . " Nobody was there but ...
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... told as Savage told it to him . But when he told it again himself , though he denounced one whom he believed to be an unnatural mother , and dealt gently with his friend , he did not translate evil into good . Through all the generous ...
... told as Savage told it to him . But when he told it again himself , though he denounced one whom he believed to be an unnatural mother , and dealt gently with his friend , he did not translate evil into good . Through all the generous ...
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... told me , when I was a boy , by Andrew Corbet , of Shropshire , who had heard it from Mr. Pigot , his uncle . The practice of barring - out was a savage licence , prac- tised in many schools to the end of the last century , by which the ...
... told me , when I was a boy , by Andrew Corbet , of Shropshire , who had heard it from Mr. Pigot , his uncle . The practice of barring - out was a savage licence , prac- tised in many schools to the end of the last century , by which the ...
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... told him that there was no encouragement for genius ; that worthless men were unprofitably enriched with public money , without any care to find or employ those whose appearance might do honour to their country . To this Godolphin ...
... told him that there was no encouragement for genius ; that worthless men were unprofitably enriched with public money , without any care to find or employ those whose appearance might do honour to their country . To this Godolphin ...
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... told by Steele in his last paper ; and of the Spectator by Budgell in the preface to " Theophrastus , " a book which Addison has recommended , and which he was suspected to have revised , if he did not write it . Of those portraits ...
... told by Steele in his last paper ; and of the Spectator by Budgell in the preface to " Theophrastus , " a book which Addison has recommended , and which he was suspected to have revised , if he did not write it . Of those portraits ...
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