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... London together , Davy Garrick is to be with you early the next week , and Mr. Johnfon to try his fate with a tragedy , and to fee to get himfelf employed in fome translation either from the Latin or the French . Johnson is a very good ...
... London together , Davy Garrick is to be with you early the next week , and Mr. Johnfon to try his fate with a tragedy , and to fee to get himfelf employed in fome translation either from the Latin or the French . Johnson is a very good ...
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... London , Mrs. Johnson was one of the company ; it is rather to be conjectured , that her husband , having abandoned the hope of fucceeding in his attempt to raise a school , left to her the care of the house , and the management of the ...
... London , Mrs. Johnson was one of the company ; it is rather to be conjectured , that her husband , having abandoned the hope of fucceeding in his attempt to raise a school , left to her the care of the house , and the management of the ...
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... London , to communicate to you the following defign , which , I hope , if you join in it , will be of advantage to both of us . The history of the Council of Trent ,, having been ⚫ lately tranflated into French , and published with ...
... London , to communicate to you the following defign , which , I hope , if you join in it , will be of advantage to both of us . The history of the Council of Trent ,, having been ⚫ lately tranflated into French , and published with ...
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... London with a view to the profeffion of an actor , ex- preffed a wish to see him in fome comic character : Garrick readily complied ; and , as Cave himself told me , with a little preparation of the room over the great arch arch of St ...
... London with a view to the profeffion of an actor , ex- preffed a wish to see him in fome comic character : Garrick readily complied ; and , as Cave himself told me , with a little preparation of the room over the great arch arch of St ...
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... London , in the year 1665 , and gave occafion to John- fon to speak of Dr. Nathanael Hodges , who , in the height of that calamity , continued in the city , and was almost the only one of his profeffion that had the cou- rage rage to ...
... London , in the year 1665 , and gave occafion to John- fon to speak of Dr. Nathanael Hodges , who , in the height of that calamity , continued in the city , and was almost the only one of his profeffion that had the cou- rage rage to ...
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