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Page 97
... lived seventysix years , to August 1727. This is the daughter of whom public mention has been made . She could repeat the first lines of Homer , the Metamorphoses , and some of Euri- pides , by having often read them . Yet here ...
... lived seventysix years , to August 1727. This is the daughter of whom public mention has been made . She could repeat the first lines of Homer , the Metamorphoses , and some of Euri- pides , by having often read them . Yet here ...
Page 120
... lived so long in either university but as belonging to one house or another ; and it is still less likely that he could have so long inhabited a place of learning with so little distinction as to leave his residence uncertain . Dr. Nash ...
... lived so long in either university but as belonging to one house or another ; and it is still less likely that he could have so long inhabited a place of learning with so little distinction as to leave his residence uncertain . Dr. Nash ...
Page 121
... lived , says Wood , upon her fortune , having studied the common law , but never practised it . A fortune she had , says his biographer , but it was lost by bad securities . In 1663 was published the first part , containing three cantos ...
... lived , says Wood , upon her fortune , having studied the common law , but never practised it . A fortune she had , says his biographer , but it was lost by bad securities . In 1663 was published the first part , containing three cantos ...
Page 132
... lived worthless and useless , and blazed out his youth and his health in lavish voluptuousness ; till , at the age of one - and - thirty , he had exhausted the fund of life , and reduced himself to a state of weakness and decay . At ...
... lived worthless and useless , and blazed out his youth and his health in lavish voluptuousness ; till , at the age of one - and - thirty , he had exhausted the fund of life , and reduced himself to a state of weakness and decay . At ...
Page 148
... lived near enough to be well informed , relates in Spence's " Memorials , " that he died of a fever caught by violent pursuit of a thief that had robbed one of his friends . But that indigence , and its concomitants , sorrow and de ...
... lived near enough to be well informed , relates in Spence's " Memorials , " that he died of a fever caught by violent pursuit of a thief that had robbed one of his friends . But that indigence , and its concomitants , sorrow and de ...
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