LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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Samuel Johnson. private tuition under the care of Thomas Young , who was afterwards chap lain to the English merchants at Hamburgh , and of whom we have reason to think well , since his scholar considered him as worthy of an epistolary ...
Samuel Johnson. private tuition under the care of Thomas Young , who was afterwards chap lain to the English merchants at Hamburgh , and of whom we have reason to think well , since his scholar considered him as worthy of an epistolary ...
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... young lady , and Lawes hims.If , bearing each a part in the representation . The lady Alice Egerton became afterwards the wife of the earl of Carbury , who at his seat called Golden - grove , in Caermarthenshire , harboured Dr. Jeremy ...
... young lady , and Lawes hims.If , bearing each a part in the representation . The lady Alice Egerton became afterwards the wife of the earl of Carbury , who at his seat called Golden - grove , in Caermarthenshire , harboured Dr. Jeremy ...
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... the course of his conduct , and the train of his thoughts ; and , Stephen Marshall , Edmund Calamy , Thomas Young , Matthew Newcomen , Willing Spinstow , 86 and , because he has been suspected of incontinence MILTON . 55.
... the course of his conduct , and the train of his thoughts ; and , Stephen Marshall , Edmund Calamy , Thomas Young , Matthew Newcomen , Willing Spinstow , 86 and , because he has been suspected of incontinence MILTON . 55.
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... young woman of great accomplishments , the daughter of one Dr. Davis , who was however not ready to comply , they resolved to endeavour a re - union . He went sometimes to the house of one Blackborough his relation , in the lane of St ...
... young woman of great accomplishments , the daughter of one Dr. Davis , who was however not ready to comply , they resolved to endeavour a re - union . He went sometimes to the house of one Blackborough his relation , in the lane of St ...
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... young fry of a parish ; but only was " willing to impart his learning and knowledge to his relations , and the sons " of gentlemen who were his intimate friends ; and that neither his writings " nor his way of teaching savoured in the ...
... young fry of a parish ; but only was " willing to impart his learning and knowledge to his relations , and the sons " of gentlemen who were his intimate friends ; and that neither his writings " nor his way of teaching savoured in the ...
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