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... honoured with general applause , for none was more fortunate in obtaining and preserving the friendship of the wise and ... honour of being Johnson's hostess was almost counterbalanced by the tax which he exacted on her time and patience ...
... honoured with general applause , for none was more fortunate in obtaining and preserving the friendship of the wise and ... honour of being Johnson's hostess was almost counterbalanced by the tax which he exacted on her time and patience ...
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... honour . So wide was his province of intelligence , that , for several years , it filled all his days , and two or three nights in the week . In the year 1647 , his " Mistress " was published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his ...
... honour . So wide was his province of intelligence , that , for several years , it filled all his days , and two or three nights in the week . In the year 1647 , his " Mistress " was published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his ...
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... honour of his country . Considering botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and as the predominance of a favourite study affects all subordinate operations of the intellect , botany in the mind of ...
... honour of his country . Considering botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and as the predominance of a favourite study affects all subordinate operations of the intellect , botany in the mind of ...
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... honour , Cleveland has paralleled it with the sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist , and no woman whore ; Yet why should hallow'd vestal's sacred shrine Deserve more honour than a flaming mine ? These ...
... honour , Cleveland has paralleled it with the sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist , and no woman whore ; Yet why should hallow'd vestal's sacred shrine Deserve more honour than a flaming mine ? These ...
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... honour or where conscience does not bind No other law shall shackle me ; Slave to myself I ne'er will be ; Nor shall my future actions be confined By my own present mind . at w Who by resolves and vows engaged does stand For days , that ...
... honour or where conscience does not bind No other law shall shackle me ; Slave to myself I ne'er will be ; Nor shall my future actions be confined By my own present mind . at w Who by resolves and vows engaged does stand For days , that ...
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their ... Samuel Johnson,Sir Walter Scott Visualització completa - 1871 |
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