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... thanks to the author , with an affurance , that it exceeded his own original . This fact Newbery himself told me , and offered to fhew me the letter in Mr. Pope's hand - writing . fchool with him , then at Chrift - church , 12 THE LIFE OF.
... thanks to the author , with an affurance , that it exceeded his own original . This fact Newbery himself told me , and offered to fhew me the letter in Mr. Pope's hand - writing . fchool with him , then at Chrift - church , 12 THE LIFE OF.
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... told me , an actual bank- rupt . The non - attainment of a degree , which after a certain standing is conferred almoft of course , he regretted not it is true , he foon felt the want of one ; but ample amends were afterwards made him ...
... told me , an actual bank- rupt . The non - attainment of a degree , which after a certain standing is conferred almoft of course , he regretted not it is true , he foon felt the want of one ; but ample amends were afterwards made him ...
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... told , that Burton on Melancholy was a book that he frequently reforted to for the purpose of exhilaration , or that , at times , he should find entertainment in turn- ing over Knolles's voluminous and neglected history of the Turks ...
... told , that Burton on Melancholy was a book that he frequently reforted to for the purpose of exhilaration , or that , at times , he should find entertainment in turn- ing over Knolles's voluminous and neglected history of the Turks ...
Page 40
... told by Johnson , that his friend had talents for the theatre , and was come to 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 ...
... told by Johnson , that his friend had talents for the theatre , and was come to 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 ...
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... told there is a very good paragraph in it , upon the fubject of mufic : did you write that yourself ? ' His difcernment was alfo flow ; and as he had already at his command fome writers of profe and verfe , who , in the language of ...
... told there is a very good paragraph in it , upon the fubject of mufic : did you write that yourself ? ' His difcernment was alfo flow ; and as he had already at his command fome writers of profe and verfe , who , in the language of ...
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