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... sufficient for some time to overbalance the miseries of want , which this per- formance did not much alleviate ; for it was sold for a very trivial sum to a bookseller [ T. Worrall ] , who , though the success was so uncommon that five ...
... sufficient for some time to overbalance the miseries of want , which this per- formance did not much alleviate ; for it was sold for a very trivial sum to a bookseller [ T. Worrall ] , who , though the success was so uncommon that five ...
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... sufficient for him , being now determined to commence a rigid economist , and to live according to the exact rules of frugality ; for nothing was in his opinion more contemptible than a man who , when he knew his income , exceeded it ...
... sufficient for him , being now determined to commence a rigid economist , and to live according to the exact rules of frugality ; for nothing was in his opinion more contemptible than a man who , when he knew his income , exceeded it ...
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... sufficiently extensive and multifarious ; for his early pieces show , with sufficient evidence , his knowledge of books . He that is pleased with himself easily imagines that he shall please others . Sir William Trumbull , who had been ...
... sufficiently extensive and multifarious ; for his early pieces show , with sufficient evidence , his knowledge of books . He that is pleased with himself easily imagines that he shall please others . Sir William Trumbull , who had been ...
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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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