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Page 78
... friends seem not to have found ; they therefore shift and palliate . He did not sell literature to all comers at an open shop ; he was a chamber - milliner , and measured his commodities only to his friends . Philips , evidently ...
... friends seem not to have found ; they therefore shift and palliate . He did not sell literature to all comers at an open shop ; he was a chamber - milliner , and measured his commodities only to his friends . Philips , evidently ...
Page 358
... friend of Smith . Such scruples might debar him from some profitable employments ; but as they could not deprive him of any real esteem , they left him many friends ; and no man was ever better introduced to the theatre than he , who ...
... friend of Smith . Such scruples might debar him from some profitable employments ; but as they could not deprive him of any real esteem , they left him many friends ; and no man was ever better introduced to the theatre than he , who ...
Page 359
... friends , and at last missed his reward by not going to solicit it . Addison has , in the Spectator , mentioned the neglect of Smith's tragedy as disgraceful to the nation , and imputes it to the fondness of operas then prevailing . The ...
... friends , and at last missed his reward by not going to solicit it . Addison has , in the Spectator , mentioned the neglect of Smith's tragedy as disgraceful to the nation , and imputes it to the fondness of operas then prevailing . The ...
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