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Accordingly a select number of the most respectable booksellers met on the
occasion , and , on consulting together , agreed , that all the proprietors of copy -
right in the various Poets should be summoned together ; and when their
opinions ...
Accordingly a select number of the most respectable booksellers met on the
occasion , and , on consulting together , agreed , that all the proprietors of copy -
right in the various Poets should be summoned together ; and when their
opinions ...
Page 287
Percy is sensible that you did not mean to injure him ; but he is vexed to think that
your behaviour to him upon that occasion may be interpreted as a proof that he is
despised by you , which I know is not the case . I have told him , that the ...
Percy is sensible that you did not mean to injure him ; but he is vexed to think that
your behaviour to him upon that occasion may be interpreted as a proof that he is
despised by you , which I know is not the case . I have told him , that the ...
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This he said to me with great earnestness of manner , very near the time of his
decease , on occasion of having desired me to read a letter addressed to him
from some person in the North of England ; which when I had done , and he
asked me ...
This he said to me with great earnestness of manner , very near the time of his
decease , on occasion of having desired me to read a letter addressed to him
from some person in the North of England ; which when I had done , and he
asked me ...
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