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63 Human happiness has always its abatements ; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud . ... not sit quiet at a successful play ; but was eager to tell friends and enemies that they had misplaced their admirations .
63 Human happiness has always its abatements ; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud . ... not sit quiet at a successful play ; but was eager to tell friends and enemies that they had misplaced their admirations .
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... the success was very earnestly promoted by Steele ' , who , when the 2 3 see 6 Eng . Poets , xxxi . 285 . Ante , Rowe , 22 , 35. See Cunningham's Lives of the Poets , ii . 185 n . The authority is John Duncombe . Hughes Corres .
... the success was very earnestly promoted by Steele ' , who , when the 2 3 see 6 Eng . Poets , xxxi . 285 . Ante , Rowe , 22 , 35. See Cunningham's Lives of the Poets , ii . 185 n . The authority is John Duncombe . Hughes Corres .
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town ; but , though he was flushed with the success of The Beggar's Opera , had the mortification to see it again rejected " . 7 In the last year of queen Anne's life , Gay was made secretary to the earl of Clarendon , ambassador to the ...
town ; but , though he was flushed with the success of The Beggar's Opera , had the mortification to see it again rejected " . 7 In the last year of queen Anne's life , Gay was made secretary to the earl of Clarendon , ambassador to the ...
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