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... told the truth about his own birth , is , in appearance , to be very deficient in candour ; yet nobody can live long without knowing that false- hoods of convenience or vanity , falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues ...
... told the truth about his own birth , is , in appearance , to be very deficient in candour ; yet nobody can live long without knowing that false- hoods of convenience or vanity , falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues ...
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... told by Pope , who is more willing , as I have heard observed , to show what his father was not , than what he was . It is allowed that he grew rich by trade , but whether in a shop or on the Exchange was never discovered till Mr. Tyers ...
... told by Pope , who is more willing , as I have heard observed , to show what his father was not , than what he was . It is allowed that he grew rich by trade , but whether in a shop or on the Exchange was never discovered till Mr. Tyers ...
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... told it . He left his illustrious antagonist to be punished by what has been considered as the most painful of all reflections , the remembrance of a crime perpetrated in vain . The other circumstances of their quarrel were thus related ...
... told it . He left his illustrious antagonist to be punished by what has been considered as the most painful of all reflections , the remembrance of a crime perpetrated in vain . The other circumstances of their quarrel were thus related ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
JOHN GAY 16881732 | 35 |
THOMAS YALDEN 16711736 | 53 |
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