The Letters of Thomas Gray: Including the Correspondence of Gray and Mason, Volume 3G. Bell and sons, 1912 - Poets, English |
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... married . DEAR DOCTOR CCLIII . To Wharton , You may well wonder at my long taciturnity : I wonder too , and know not what cause to assign , for it is certain , I think of you daily . I believe , it is owing to the nothingness of my ...
... married . DEAR DOCTOR CCLIII . To Wharton , You may well wonder at my long taciturnity : I wonder too , and know not what cause to assign , for it is certain , I think of you daily . I believe , it is owing to the nothingness of my ...
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... married Cocceji , son of Frederick's Chancellor , and when the marriage was declared , gave up " the Opera and public pirouettes . " But they quarrelled , and were divorced ; and the Barberina married again- " a nobleman of sixteen ...
... married Cocceji , son of Frederick's Chancellor , and when the marriage was declared , gave up " the Opera and public pirouettes . " But they quarrelled , and were divorced ; and the Barberina married again- " a nobleman of sixteen ...
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... married out of hand : but I find it was only a faint sort of tendency that way , that may or may not come to some- thing of maturity just as the season of the year shall incline him . the best I can tell you of her is , that she is no ...
... married out of hand : but I find it was only a faint sort of tendency that way , that may or may not come to some- thing of maturity just as the season of the year shall incline him . the best I can tell you of her is , that she is no ...
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... married a Pulteney , aunt of Lord Bath . The late Lord , who had died in 1758 , was the Harry Vane who was " Pulteney's toad - eater . " ( Vol . i . , p . 170 , n . 3. ) 2 George Colman the elder , Lady Bath's nephew ; see vol . ii ...
... married a Pulteney , aunt of Lord Bath . The late Lord , who had died in 1758 , was the Harry Vane who was " Pulteney's toad - eater . " ( Vol . i . , p . 170 , n . 3. ) 2 George Colman the elder , Lady Bath's nephew ; see vol . ii ...
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... married his widow , Elizabeth , daughter of Algernon Capel , Earl of Essex . St. André was one of the dupes of Mary Tofts , who asserted that she gave birth to seventeen rabbits in 1726. Sir Thomas Clarges detected the fraud . Whiston ...
... married his widow , Elizabeth , daughter of Algernon Capel , Earl of Essex . St. André was one of the dupes of Mary Tofts , who asserted that she gave birth to seventeen rabbits in 1726. Sir Thomas Clarges detected the fraud . Whiston ...
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