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Page 210
... received , as is confessed , with cold disapprobation , he was probably less willing to claim it . Tickell omitted it in his collection ; but the testimony of Steele , and the total silence of any other claimant , has determined the ...
... received , as is confessed , with cold disapprobation , he was probably less willing to claim it . Tickell omitted it in his collection ; but the testimony of Steele , and the total silence of any other claimant , has determined the ...
Page 279
... received , and probably yet more with those which he was promised : he considered himself now as a favourite of the Queen , and did not doubt but a few annual poems would establish him in some profitable employment . He therefore ...
... received , and probably yet more with those which he was promised : he considered himself now as a favourite of the Queen , and did not doubt but a few annual poems would establish him in some profitable employment . He therefore ...
Page 449
... received a present of twenty guineas , of which he gives this account to Mr. Hill : " I hinted to you in my last that on Saturday morning I was with Sir Spencer Compton . A certain gentleman , without my desire , spoke to him concerning ...
... received a present of twenty guineas , of which he gives this account to Mr. Hill : " I hinted to you in my last that on Saturday morning I was with Sir Spencer Compton . A certain gentleman , without my desire , spoke to him concerning ...
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