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... lived to the age of eighty , had her folicitude rewarded by feeing her fon eminent , and , I hope , by seeing him fortunate , and partaking his pro- fperity . We know at leaft , from Sprat's account , that he always acknowledged her ...
... lived to the age of eighty , had her folicitude rewarded by feeing her fon eminent , and , I hope , by seeing him fortunate , and partaking his pro- fperity . We know at leaft , from Sprat's account , that he always acknowledged her ...
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... lived and acted with manners uncommunicable ; fo that it is difficult even for imagination to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by confe- quence their joys and griefs are not eafily adopted , nor can the ...
... lived and acted with manners uncommunicable ; fo that it is difficult even for imagination to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by confe- quence their joys and griefs are not eafily adopted , nor can the ...
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... it give advantage to be more fit . When he left the university , he returned to his father , then refiding at Horton in Buckinghamshire , with whom he lived five years , years , in which time he is faid to have 132 MILTON .
... it give advantage to be more fit . When he left the university , he returned to his father , then refiding at Horton in Buckinghamshire , with whom he lived five years , years , in which time he is faid to have 132 MILTON .
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... lived at Horton he used fometimes to fteal from his ftudies a few days , which he spent at Hare- field , the house of the countefs dowager of Derby , where the Arcades made part of a dramatick entertainment . He began now to grow weary ...
... lived at Horton he used fometimes to fteal from his ftudies a few days , which he spent at Hare- field , the house of the countefs dowager of Derby , where the Arcades made part of a dramatick entertainment . He began now to grow weary ...
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... lived longer in this place than any other . He was now bufied by Paradife Loft . Whence he drew the original design has been variously conjectured by men who cannot bear to think themselves ignorant of that which , at laft , neither ...
... lived longer in this place than any other . He was now bufied by Paradife Loft . Whence he drew the original design has been variously conjectured by men who cannot bear to think themselves ignorant of that which , at laft , neither ...
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