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" He was wont to go to his native country once a year. I think I have been told that he left 200?. "
Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt - Page 187
by Samuel Johnson - 1854
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations ..., Volume 15, Part 1

John Britton - Architecture - 1814 - 842 pages
...handsome, well-shaped man ; verie good companie, and of a very ready and pleasant and smooth wilt. He was wont to go to his native country once a year. I think I have been told that he left near 300/. to a sister. He understood Latin pretty well, for...
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An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town and Castle of Warwick and ...

William Field - Leamington (England) - 1815 - 512 pages
...pains to gain information, who asserts, however, a great deal upon very slender evidence, relates " that he was wont to go to his native country once a year." It is, indeed, certain that so long as fourteen years, previous to his final retirement, he had completed...
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An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town and Castle of Warwick and ...

William Field - Leamington (England) - 1815 - 506 pages
...pains to gain information, who asserts, however, a great deal upon very slender evidence, relates " that he was wont to go to his native country once a year." It is, indeed, certain that so long as fourteen years, previous to his final retirement, he had completed...
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The plays and poems of Shakspeare [according to the text of E ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 pages
...was probable he had to encounter. Tradition farther says, as preserved in the manuscripts of Aubrey, that ' he was wont to go to his native country once a yeare ; ' and Mr. Oldys, in his collections for a life of our author, repeats this report with an additional...
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Shakspeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet, Criticisms on ...

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...was probable he had to encounter. Tradition further says, as preserved in the manuscripts of Aubrey, I 7x" / yeare ;" and Mr. Oldys, in his collections for a life of our author, repeats this report with an additional...
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William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 pages
...was probable he had to encounter. Tradition farther says, as preserved in the manuscripts of Aubrey, that ' he was wont to go to his native country once a yeare ; ' and Mr. Oldys, in his collections for a life of our author, repeats this report with an additional...
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The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare,: According to the Improved ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 pages
...was probable he had to encounter. Tradition farther says, as preserved in the manuscripts of Aubrey, that ' he was wont to go to his native country once a yeare ; ' and Mr. Oldys, in his collections for a life of our author, repeats this report with an additional...
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Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, Volumes 4-6

1845 - 410 pages
...Dream ;' but he probably refers to the ever-famous Dogberry or Verges. In the same paper Aubrey says, " he was wont to go to his native country once a- year." But we have more trustworthy evidence than that of John Aubrey for believing that Shakspere, however...
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The Homes of Shakspere

1847 - 82 pages
...competence. In NEW PLACE, the house he had purchased at the early age of 33, he died at that of 52. "He was wont to go to his native country once a year," says Aubrey; and he had so intimately connected himself with Stratford by the purchase of property...
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The home of Shakspere illustrated and described

Frederick William Fairholt - Electronic books - 1847 - 72 pages
...competence. In NEW PLACE, the house he had purchased at the early age of 33, he died at that of 52. " He was wont to go to his native country once a year," says Aubrey; and he had so intimately connected himsel^with Stratford by the purchase of property and...
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