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... parts . The Club in Ivy Lane The Vanity of Human Wishes published . Garrick brings out Irene at Drury Lane . Ill success of that tragedy The Rambler commenced 1752 . Æt . 43 . His kindness to Mrs. TABLE OF CONTENTS . XXV.
... parts . The Club in Ivy Lane The Vanity of Human Wishes published . Garrick brings out Irene at Drury Lane . Ill success of that tragedy The Rambler commenced 1752 . Æt . 43 . His kindness to Mrs. TABLE OF CONTENTS . XXV.
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... humanity ; but we do not feel them the less . Let me par- ticularly lament the Reverend Thomas Warton and the Reverend Dr. Adams . Mr. Warton , amidst his variety of genius and learning , was an excellent biographer . His contributions ...
... humanity ; but we do not feel them the less . Let me par- ticularly lament the Reverend Thomas Warton and the Reverend Dr. Adams . Mr. Warton , amidst his variety of genius and learning , was an excellent biographer . His contributions ...
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... man and an obliging friend . 1 See Mr. Malone's Preface to his edition of Shakspeare . In the strangely mixed scenes of human existence , our xxxvi MR . BOSWELL'S ADVERTISEMENTS . Mr Boswell's advertisements to the first and second ...
... man and an obliging friend . 1 See Mr. Malone's Preface to his edition of Shakspeare . In the strangely mixed scenes of human existence , our xxxvi MR . BOSWELL'S ADVERTISEMENTS . Mr Boswell's advertisements to the first and second ...
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... human existence , our feelings are often at once pleasing and painful . Of this truth , the progress of the present work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is ...
... human existence , our feelings are often at once pleasing and painful . Of this truth , the progress of the present work furnishes a striking instance . It was highly gratifying to me that my friend , Sir Joshua Reynolds , to whom it is ...
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... Human Wishes , " the " Prefaces " to the Dictionary and Shakespeare , and the " Lives of the Poets , " that admiration has little or no alloy . In his personal conduct and conversation there may be occasionally something to regret and ...
... Human Wishes , " the " Prefaces " to the Dictionary and Shakespeare , and the " Lives of the Poets , " that admiration has little or no alloy . In his personal conduct and conversation there may be occasionally something to regret and ...
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