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... favoured me with a characteristick anec- dote of Richardson . One day at his country house at Northend , where a large company was assembled at dinner , a gentleman who was just returned from Paris , willing to please Mr. Richardson ...
... favoured me with a characteristick anec- dote of Richardson . One day at his country house at Northend , where a large company was assembled at dinner , a gentleman who was just returned from Paris , willing to please Mr. Richardson ...
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... favours , he had never received or asked any from the Bishop of Gloucester : and , if my memory fails me not , he had seen him only once , when they met almost without design , conversed without much effort , and parted without any ...
... favours , he had never received or asked any from the Bishop of Gloucester : and , if my memory fails me not , he had seen him only once , when they met almost without design , conversed without much effort , and parted without any ...
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... favoured me with one repartee of Pope , of which Johnson was not informed . Johnson , after justly censuring him for having " nursed in his mind a foolish dis - esteem of Kings , " tells us , " yet a little regard shewn him by the ...
... favoured me with one repartee of Pope , of which Johnson was not informed . Johnson , after justly censuring him for having " nursed in his mind a foolish dis - esteem of Kings , " tells us , " yet a little regard shewn him by the ...
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... favour of Hea- ven . ' 995 " March 15 , 1781 . " E. M. " The last paragraph of this note is of great impor- tance ; and I request that my readers may consider it with particular attention . It will be afterwards re ferred to in this ...
... favour of Hea- ven . ' 995 " March 15 , 1781 . " E. M. " The last paragraph of this note is of great impor- tance ; and I request that my readers may consider it with particular attention . It will be afterwards re ferred to in this ...
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... favour . " His practice , which was once [ very extensive ] invidiously great . " There is scarcely any distemper of dreadful name [ of ] which he has not [ shewn ] taught his reader how [ it is to be opposed ] to oppose . " Of this ...
... favour . " His practice , which was once [ very extensive ] invidiously great . " There is scarcely any distemper of dreadful name [ of ] which he has not [ shewn ] taught his reader how [ it is to be opposed ] to oppose . " Of this ...
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