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... Burke , and others . Hogarth , too , is said to have visited him at Islington , and to have painted the portrait of Mrs. Fleming . Later in the same year , incited thereto by the success of Christopher Smart's Hannah , he wrote the ...
... Burke , and others . Hogarth , too , is said to have visited him at Islington , and to have painted the portrait of Mrs. Fleming . Later in the same year , incited thereto by the success of Christopher Smart's Hannah , he wrote the ...
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... Burke . Morbidly self - conscious , nervously anxious to succeed , he was at once forced into a competition for Io which neither his antecedents nor his qualifications had prepared him . To this , coupled with the old habit of poverty ...
... Burke . Morbidly self - conscious , nervously anxious to succeed , he was at once forced into a competition for Io which neither his antecedents nor his qualifications had prepared him . To this , coupled with the old habit of poverty ...
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... Burke , and a good venison pasty , Were things that I never dislik'd in my life , Though clogg'd with a coxcomb , and Kitty his wife . So next day , in due splendour to make my approach , 65 I drove to his door in my own hackney coach ...
... Burke , and a good venison pasty , Were things that I never dislik'd in my life , Though clogg'd with a coxcomb , and Kitty his wife . So next day , in due splendour to make my approach , 65 I drove to his door in my own hackney coach ...
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