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... gentleman , ( for which see vol . i . page 195 ) writes to me as follows : - " Perhaps it would gratify you to have some ... Gentleman's Magazine for August 1791 . Irish language ; but the world still remains as it A.D. 1777 181 Ætat . 68.
... gentleman , ( for which see vol . i . page 195 ) writes to me as follows : - " Perhaps it would gratify you to have some ... Gentleman's Magazine for August 1791 . Irish language ; but the world still remains as it A.D. 1777 181 Ætat . 68.
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... gentleman of eminence in literature had got into a bad style of Poetry of late . " He puts ( said he ) a very common thing ... Gentleman's Magazine " for 1781 , p . 173.-M. ] BOSWELL . " But why smite his bosom , Sir A.D. 1777 117 Ætat . 68.
... gentleman of eminence in literature had got into a bad style of Poetry of late . " He puts ( said he ) a very common thing ... Gentleman's Magazine " for 1781 , p . 173.-M. ] BOSWELL . " But why smite his bosom , Sir A.D. 1777 117 Ætat . 68.
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... Gentleman's Magazine ; ' yet such was then his minute attention and anxiety that the sale should not suffer the smallest decrease , that he would name a particular person who he heard had talked of leaving off the Magazine , and would ...
... Gentleman's Magazine ; ' yet such was then his minute attention and anxiety that the sale should not suffer the smallest decrease , that he would name a particular person who he heard had talked of leaving off the Magazine , and would ...
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