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... success , 228 - Attacked by Dennis , 228 - The Guardian started , 229 - The Drummer , 230 - In 1716 marries the Countess of Warwick , 231 - His deathbed interview with Gay , 234- Dies , June 17 , 1719 at Holland House , 234 - His ...
... success , 228 - Attacked by Dennis , 228 - The Guardian started , 229 - The Drummer , 230 - In 1716 marries the Countess of Warwick , 231 - His deathbed interview with Gay , 234- Dies , June 17 , 1719 at Holland House , 234 - His ...
Pàgina xiv
... success of The Beggars ' Opera , 288 - The friendship of the Duke and Duchess of Queensbury , 289 - Dies in their house , December 4 , 1732 , and is buried in Westminster Abbey , 290 . GEORGE GRANVILLE , LORD LANSDOWN , 1665-1735 • • p ...
... success of The Beggars ' Opera , 288 - The friendship of the Duke and Duchess of Queensbury , 289 - Dies in their house , December 4 , 1732 , and is buried in Westminster Abbey , 290 . GEORGE GRANVILLE , LORD LANSDOWN , 1665-1735 • • p ...
Pàgina xx
... successful during its progress , stamped the character of the author as one of the first moral writers of the age , and as eminently qualified to write , and even to improve , the English language . " In 1752 , Johnson was deprived of ...
... successful during its progress , stamped the character of the author as one of the first moral writers of the age , and as eminently qualified to write , and even to improve , the English language . " In 1752 , Johnson was deprived of ...
Pàgina xxi
... successful cultivator . The latter part of his life was honoured with general applause , for none was more fortunate in obtaining and preserving the friendship of the wise and the worthy . Thus loved and venerated , Johnson might have ...
... successful cultivator . The latter part of his life was honoured with general applause , for none was more fortunate in obtaining and preserving the friendship of the wise and the worthy . Thus loved and venerated , Johnson might have ...
Pàgina xxiii
... successful , he said , " he will be soon deterré , " and afterwards did his best to serve him . 8 Of this noble work , Byron says in his Journal , " Read Johnson's ' Vanity of Human Wishes - all the examples and mode of giving them ...
... successful , he said , " he will be soon deterré , " and afterwards did his best to serve him . 8 Of this noble work , Byron says in his Journal , " Read Johnson's ' Vanity of Human Wishes - all the examples and mode of giving them ...
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