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... appearance of a short hand , which , perhaps , Johnson was then trying to learn . TO MR . CAVE Wednesday SIR , I did not ... appeared in The Gentleman's Magazine , viii , 486 , with this title : Verses to Lady Firebrace , at Bury Assizes ...
... appearance of a short hand , which , perhaps , Johnson was then trying to learn . TO MR . CAVE Wednesday SIR , I did not ... appeared in The Gentleman's Magazine , viii , 486 , with this title : Verses to Lady Firebrace , at Bury Assizes ...
Page 448
... appeared not to be sufficiently sensible of the merit of Otway . " " Snatches of reading ( said he , ) will not make a Bentley or a Clarke . They are , however , in a certain degree advantageous . I would put a child into a library ...
... appeared not to be sufficiently sensible of the merit of Otway . " " Snatches of reading ( said he , ) will not make a Bentley or a Clarke . They are , however , in a certain degree advantageous . I would put a child into a library ...
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... appeared somewhat remarkable in a man of such intellectual stores , of such an advanced age , and who had retired from life with declared disappointment in his expecta- tions . An instance at once of his pensive turn of mind , and his ...
... appeared somewhat remarkable in a man of such intellectual stores , of such an advanced age , and who had retired from life with declared disappointment in his expecta- tions . An instance at once of his pensive turn of mind , and his ...
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