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... thofe who know me not , a truer information may be requifite . Being divided between the neceffity to fay fomething of my felf , and my own lazinefs to undertake fo aukward a talk , I thought it the fhorteft way to put the laft hand to ...
... thofe who know me not , a truer information may be requifite . Being divided between the neceffity to fay fomething of my felf , and my own lazinefs to undertake fo aukward a talk , I thought it the fhorteft way to put the laft hand to ...
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... thofe early days , a Comedy and Tragedy , the latter taken from a flory in the legend of St. Genevieve . They both defervedly underwent the fame fate . As he began his Paftorals foon after , he used to fay pleafantly , that he bad ...
... thofe early days , a Comedy and Tragedy , the latter taken from a flory in the legend of St. Genevieve . They both defervedly underwent the fame fate . As he began his Paftorals foon after , he used to fay pleafantly , that he bad ...
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... thofe arms which the other only threatened with . while he was preparing fome trifling piece of Criticism for the prefs , bad the misfortune to hear his papers were deftroyed by fire : On which he is reported to have broke out ...
... thofe arms which the other only threatened with . while he was preparing fome trifling piece of Criticism for the prefs , bad the misfortune to hear his papers were deftroyed by fire : On which he is reported to have broke out ...
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... their private diftreffes generally may . For ( when uninfected by the neigh bourhood of Party ) he speaks of thofe acceffities much more dispassion- VOL . IV . D } hands ! Or Envy holds a whole week's war with TO THE SATIRES . 33.
... their private diftreffes generally may . For ( when uninfected by the neigh bourhood of Party ) he speaks of thofe acceffities much more dispassion- VOL . IV . D } hands ! Or Envy holds a whole week's war with TO THE SATIRES . 33.
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... thofe they left me ; for they left me GAY ; NOTES . ately . W. In faЯ , neither great miniflers , nor great princes , are either fo good or fo bad , as their flatterers and cenfurers reprefent them to be . This , however , ought not to ...
... thofe they left me ; for they left me GAY ; NOTES . ately . W. In faЯ , neither great miniflers , nor great princes , are either fo good or fo bad , as their flatterers and cenfurers reprefent them to be . This , however , ought not to ...
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