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... lived to the age of eighty , had her solicitude rewarded by seeing her son eminent , and , I hope , by seeing him fortunate , and partaking his prosperity . We know , at least , from Sprat's account , that he always acknowledged her ...
... lived to the age of eighty , had her solicitude rewarded by seeing her son eminent , and , I hope , by seeing him fortunate , and partaking his prosperity . We know , at least , from Sprat's account , that he always acknowledged her ...
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... lived and ac- ted with manners uncommunicable ; so that it is difficult even for imagination to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by consequence their joys and griefs are not easily adopted , nor can the ...
... lived and ac- ted with manners uncommunicable ; so that it is difficult even for imagination to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by consequence their joys and griefs are not easily adopted , nor can the ...
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... lived five years , in which time he is said to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be understood , who shall in- form us ? It might be supposed , that he who read so much should have ...
... lived five years , in which time he is said to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be understood , who shall in- form us ? It might be supposed , that he who read so much should have ...
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... lived at Hor- ton , he used sometimes to steal from his studies a few days , which he spent at Harefield , the house of the Countess Dowager of Derby , where the " Arcades " made part of a dramatic entertainment . He began now to grow ...
... lived at Hor- ton , he used sometimes to steal from his studies a few days , which he spent at Harefield , the house of the Countess Dowager of Derby , where the " Arcades " made part of a dramatic entertainment . He began now to grow ...
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... lived longer in this place than any other . He was now busied by " Paradise Lost . " Whence he drew the original design has been variously conjectured by men who cannot bear to think themselves ignorant of that which , at last , neither ...
... lived longer in this place than any other . He was now busied by " Paradise Lost . " Whence he drew the original design has been variously conjectured by men who cannot bear to think themselves ignorant of that which , at last , neither ...
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