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... desire to speak to his mother , who always avoided him in public , and refused him admission into her house . One evening walking , as it was his custom , in the street that she inhabited , he saw the door of her house by accident open ...
... desire to speak to his mother , who always avoided him in public , and refused him admission into her house . One evening walking , as it was his custom , in the street that she inhabited , he saw the door of her house by accident open ...
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... desire with regard to Pope than that he should not , by too much arro- gance , alienate the public . To this Pope is said to have replied with great keenness and severity , upbraiding Addison with perpetual dependence , and with the ...
... desire with regard to Pope than that he should not , by too much arro- gance , alienate the public . To this Pope is said to have replied with great keenness and severity , upbraiding Addison with perpetual dependence , and with the ...
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... desire of artificial good . No man therefore can be born , in the strict acceptation , a lover of money , for he may be born where money does not exist : nor can he be born , in a moral sense , a lover of his country ; for society ...
... desire of artificial good . No man therefore can be born , in the strict acceptation , a lover of money , for he may be born where money does not exist : nor can he be born , in a moral sense , a lover of his country ; for society ...
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The Satirical Letters of St Jerome | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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