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... Italy with his mind full of associations and traditions . His biographer says that every line of good poetry which the fame or the beauty of this country had in- spired " rose almost involuntarily to his lips . " On this occa- sion he ...
... Italy with his mind full of associations and traditions . His biographer says that every line of good poetry which the fame or the beauty of this country had in- spired " rose almost involuntarily to his lips . " On this occa- sion he ...
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... Italy . 1839. Elected to the Club . Member of Parliament for Edinburgh . Secretary at War . 1840. Essay on Lord Clive . 1841. Reëlected to Parliament for Edinburgh . Essay on Warren Hastings . 1842. Lays of Ancient Rome published . 1843 ...
... Italy . 1839. Elected to the Club . Member of Parliament for Edinburgh . Secretary at War . 1840. Essay on Lord Clive . 1841. Reëlected to Parliament for Edinburgh . Essay on Warren Hastings . 1842. Lays of Ancient Rome published . 1843 ...
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... a complication of diseases , he heard that the woman whose friendship had been the chief happiness of sixteen years of his life had married an Italian fiddler ; that all London was crying shame upon 40 LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON.
... a complication of diseases , he heard that the woman whose friendship had been the chief happiness of sixteen years of his life had married an Italian fiddler ; that all London was crying shame upon 40 LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Charles Lane Hanson. Italian fiddler ; that all London was crying shame upon her ; and that the newspapers and magazines were filled with allusions to the Ephesian matron , and the two pictures in ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Charles Lane Hanson. Italian fiddler ; that all London was crying shame upon her ; and that the newspapers and magazines were filled with allusions to the Ephesian matron , and the two pictures in ...
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... Italy . 6 17. fell in love . Boswell says that Johnson's early attachments to the fair sex were 66 very transient , " and considers it but natural that when the passion of love once seized him it should be exceedingly strong ...
... Italy . 6 17. fell in love . Boswell says that Johnson's early attachments to the fair sex were 66 very transient , " and considers it but natural that when the passion of love once seized him it should be exceedingly strong ...
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