Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 - English poetry |
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Page 113
... hope you will contribute all you can to an exten- sion of that mercy , which the gentlemen of the jury have been pleased to shew Mr. Merchant , who ( allowing facts as sworn against us by the evidence ) has led us into this our calamity ...
... hope you will contribute all you can to an exten- sion of that mercy , which the gentlemen of the jury have been pleased to shew Mr. Merchant , who ( allowing facts as sworn against us by the evidence ) has led us into this our calamity ...
Page 173
Samuel Johnson. freedom from suspense , and rest from the disturbing vicissitudes of hope and disappointment ; he now found that his friends were only companions , who were willing to share his gaiety , but not to partake of his ...
Samuel Johnson. freedom from suspense , and rest from the disturbing vicissitudes of hope and disappointment ; he now found that his friends were only companions , who were willing to share his gaiety , but not to partake of his ...
Page 187
... hope , that he was a poet , and wrote Pindarick Odes to Temple , to the King , and to the Athenian Society , a knot of obscure men , who published a periodical pamphlet of answers to questions , sent , or supposed to be sent by Letters ...
... hope , that he was a poet , and wrote Pindarick Odes to Temple , to the King , and to the Athenian Society , a knot of obscure men , who published a periodical pamphlet of answers to questions , sent , or supposed to be sent by Letters ...
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