The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... thousand pounds . With her came Mrs. Dingley , whose whole fortune was twenty - feven pounds a year for her life . With these Ladies he paffed his hours of relaxation , and to them he opened his bofom ; but they never refided in the ...
... thousand pounds . With her came Mrs. Dingley , whose whole fortune was twenty - feven pounds a year for her life . With these Ladies he paffed his hours of relaxation , and to them he opened his bofom ; but they never refided in the ...
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... thousand were fold ; a great number at that time , when we were not yet a nation of readers . To its propaga- tion certainly no agency of power or influence was want- wanting . It furnished arguments for converfation , speeches for 14 ...
... thousand were fold ; a great number at that time , when we were not yet a nation of readers . To its propaga- tion certainly no agency of power or influence was want- wanting . It furnished arguments for converfation , speeches for 14 ...
Pàgina 24
... thousand pounds of halfpence and farthings for the kingdom of Ireland , in which there was a very incon- venient and embarraffing fcarcity of copper coin ; fo that it was poffible to run in debt upon the credit of a piece of money ; for ...
... thousand pounds of halfpence and farthings for the kingdom of Ireland , in which there was a very incon- venient and embarraffing fcarcity of copper coin ; fo that it was poffible to run in debt upon the credit of a piece of money ; for ...
Pàgina 56
... thousand pounds ; for which , being confci- entioufly determined not to entruft it to the govern- ment , he found no better ufe than that of locking it up in a cheft , and taking from it what his expen- ces required ; and his life was ...
... thousand pounds ; for which , being confci- entioufly determined not to entruft it to the govern- ment , he found no better ufe than that of locking it up in a cheft , and taking from it what his expen- ces required ; and his life was ...
Pàgina 66
... not one gentle- " man in fixty , even of liberal education , could un- derftand it . " The gentlemen , and the education of that time , feem to have been of a lower character than than they are of this . He mentioned a thousand 66 POPE .
... not one gentle- " man in fixty , even of liberal education , could un- derftand it . " The gentlemen , and the education of that time , feem to have been of a lower character than than they are of this . He mentioned a thousand 66 POPE .
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