Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageOctagon Books, 1967 - English poetry |
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Page 144
... person who fancied himself all these ; and whether the people who belonged to the family would think that such a person had a design upon their midrifs or his own . ' In short , that Cato should sit long enough in the aforesaid posture ...
... person who fancied himself all these ; and whether the people who belonged to the family would think that such a person had a design upon their midrifs or his own . ' In short , that Cato should sit long enough in the aforesaid posture ...
Page 328
... person who took care of me , and as tenderly as the apple of her eye ( this expression is in a letter of hers , a copy of which I found many years after her decease among her papers ) , was one Mrs. Lloyd , a lady that kept her chariot ...
... person who took care of me , and as tenderly as the apple of her eye ( this expression is in a letter of hers , a copy of which I found many years after her decease among her papers ) , was one Mrs. Lloyd , a lady that kept her chariot ...
Page 402
... person ought to prosecute that revenge from which the person who was injured desisted , I shall not preserve what Mr. Savage suppressed : of which the publication would indeed have been a punishment too severe for so impotent an assault ...
... person ought to prosecute that revenge from which the person who was injured desisted , I shall not preserve what Mr. Savage suppressed : of which the publication would indeed have been a punishment too severe for so impotent an assault ...
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