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" In this humble and obscure state, poor beyond the common lot, yet flattering my ambition with day-dreams which, perhaps, would never have been realized, I was found in the twentieth year of my age by Mr. William Cookesley, a name never to be pronounced... "
The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, tr. into Engl. verse, by W. Gifford ... - Page xv
by Juvenal - 1806
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Satires

Juvenal - 1802 - 574 pages
...found in the twentieth year of my age by Mr. William Cookesley, a name never to be pronounced by me without veneration. The lamentable doggerel which...untinctured with melancholy, and I laid it fairly before him : his first care was to console ; his second, which he cherished to the last moment of his existence,...
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The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Volume 1

Juvenal - Latin poetry - 1803 - 354 pages
...found in the twentieth year of my age by Mr. William Cookesley, a name never to be pronounced by me without veneration. The lamentable doggerel which...other reached his ear, and given him a curiosity to enquire after the author. It was my good fortune to interest his benevolence. My little history was...
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Public Characters, Volume 5

Biography - 1803 - 598 pages
...found in the twentieth, year of my age by Mr. William Cookesley, a name never to be pronounced by me without veneration. The lamentable doggerel which...had by some accident or other reached his ear, and gave him a curiosity to inquire after the author. It was my good fortune to interest his benevolence....
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Public characters [Formerly British public characters] of 1798-9 ..., Volume 5

1803 - 614 pages
...found in the twentieth year of my age by Mr. William Cookesley, a name never to be pronounced by me without veneration. The lamentable doggerel which...have already mentioned, and which had passed from' tnouth to mouth among people of my own degree, had by some accident or other reached his car, and gave...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 1

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1804 - 692 pages
...found in the twentieth year of my age by Mr. William Cookefley, a name never to be pronounced by me without veneration. The lamentable doggerel, which I have already mentioned, and which had pafled from mouth to mouth among people of my own degree, had by fome accident or other reached his...
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The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis

Juvenal - Satire, Latin - 1806 - 572 pages
...found in the twentieth year of my age by Mr. William Cookesley, a name never to be pronounced by me without veneration. The lamentable doggerel which...with melancholy, and I laid it fairly before him: his first care was to console; his second, which he cherished to the last moment of his existence,...
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The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis

Juvenal - Satire, Latin - 1806 - 586 pages
...twentieth year of my age by Mr. William Cookesley, a name never to be pronounced by me without veneratioiu The, lamentable doggerel which I have already mentioned,...interest his benevolence. My little history was not nntinctured with melancholy, and I laid it fairly before him : his first care was to console ; his...
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The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis

Juvenal - Satire, Latin - 1806 - 576 pages
...found in the twentieth yea-r of lay age by Mr. William Gookesley, a name never to be pronounced by me without veneration. The lamentable doggerel which...mouth to mouth among people of my own degree, had byi some accident. or other reached his ear, and given him a curiosity to inquire after the author....
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The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus

Perse, Juvénal - Latin poetry - 1817 - 596 pages
...found in the twentieth year of my age by Mr. William Cookesley, a name never to be pronounced by me without veneration. The lamentable doggerel which...untinctured with melancholy, and I laid it fairly before him : his first care was to console ; his second, which he cherished to the last moment of his existence,...
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 6

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1831 - 952 pages
...Mr. William Cookesley, a name never to be pronounced by me without veneration. The lamentable doggrel which I have already mentioned, and which had passed...had by some accident or other reached his ear, and gave him a curiosity to inquire after the author. " It was my good fortune to interest his benevolence....
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