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Page 161
... resent- ment was only a plea for the violation of his promise . He asserted that he had done nothing that ought to exclude him from that subsistence which he thought not so much a favour as a debt , since it was offered him upon ...
... resent- ment was only a plea for the violation of his promise . He asserted that he had done nothing that ought to exclude him from that subsistence which he thought not so much a favour as a debt , since it was offered him upon ...
Page 169
... resentment . That the anger of Mr. Savage should be kept alive is not strange , be- cause he felt every day the consequences of the quarrel ; but it might reasonably have been hoped that Lord Tyrconnel might have relented , and at ...
... resentment . That the anger of Mr. Savage should be kept alive is not strange , be- cause he felt every day the consequences of the quarrel ; but it might reasonably have been hoped that Lord Tyrconnel might have relented , and at ...
Page 294
... resentment of his friends . Curll appeared at the bar , and , knowing himself in no great danger , spoke of Pope with very little reverence . " He has , " said Curll , " a knack at versifying , but in prose I think myself a match for ...
... resentment of his friends . Curll appeared at the bar , and , knowing himself in no great danger , spoke of Pope with very little reverence . " He has , " said Curll , " a knack at versifying , but in prose I think myself a match for ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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