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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 ...
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... 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 . 66 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 . 66 In 1752 , Johnson was deprived of ...
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... success , not with so much firmness as might have been expected from so great a man . ' " What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he ...
... success , not with so much firmness as might have been expected from so great a man . ' " What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he ...
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... successful in representing or moving the affections . As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising , they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the ...
... successful in representing or moving the affections . As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising , they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the ...
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