Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 - English poetry |
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... ladies all in expectation , and advancing with reverence , too great for any other attention , stumbled at a stool ... lady heard them , and did no- thing . All the pain which he suffered from the neglect , or , as he perhaps termed it ...
... ladies all in expectation , and advancing with reverence , too great for any other attention , stumbled at a stool ... lady heard them , and did no- thing . All the pain which he suffered from the neglect , or , as he perhaps termed it ...
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... Lady on her Marriage may be allowed to doubt whether his opinion of female excellence ought implicitly to be admitted ; for if his general thoughts on women were such as he exhibits , a very little sense in a Lady would enrapture , and ...
... Lady on her Marriage may be allowed to doubt whether his opinion of female excellence ought implicitly to be admitted ; for if his general thoughts on women were such as he exhibits , a very little sense in a Lady would enrapture , and ...
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... Lady Elizabeth Lee , daughter of the Earl of Litchfield , and widow of Colonel Lee . His connexion with this Lady arose from his father's acquaintance , already mentioned , with Lady Anne Wharton , who was coheiress of Sir Henry Lee of ...
... Lady Elizabeth Lee , daughter of the Earl of Litchfield , and widow of Colonel Lee . His connexion with this Lady arose from his father's acquaintance , already mentioned , with Lady Anne Wharton , who was coheiress of Sir Henry Lee of ...
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