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... as Mrs. Porter long afterwards related , wandered through the whole exhibition behind the scenes with restless and unappeasable solicitude When it was printed notice was given that the Queen would 62 be pleased if it was dedicated ...
... as Mrs. Porter long afterwards related , wandered through the whole exhibition behind the scenes with restless and unappeasable solicitude When it was printed notice was given that the Queen would 62 be pleased if it was dedicated ...
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The price of the volume was two guineas ? ; the whole collection was four thousand , to which lord Harley , the son of the earl of Oxford , to whom he had invariably adhered , added an equal sum for the purchase of Down - hall , which ...
The price of the volume was two guineas ? ; the whole collection was four thousand , to which lord Harley , the son of the earl of Oxford , to whom he had invariably adhered , added an equal sum for the purchase of Down - hall , which ...
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6 Through the whole reign of king William he is supposed to 7 have lived in literary retirement , and indeed had for some time few other pleasures but those of study in his power . He was , . as the biographers observe , the younger son ...
6 Through the whole reign of king William he is supposed to 7 have lived in literary retirement , and indeed had for some time few other pleasures but those of study in his power . He was , . as the biographers observe , the younger son ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets: Smith-Savage Volume 2 of Lives of the English Poets, George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Octagon Books, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 8 Mar 2008 |
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