LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... lived to the age of eighty , had her solicitude rewarded by seeing her son eminent , and , I hope , by seeing him fortunate , and partaking his prosperity . We know at least , from Sprat's account , that he always ac- knowledged her ...
... lived to the age of eighty , had her solicitude rewarded by seeing her son eminent , and , I hope , by seeing him fortunate , and partaking his prosperity . We know at least , from Sprat's account , that he always ac- knowledged her ...
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... lived and acted with manners uncommunicable ; so that it is difficult even for imagination to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by consequence their joys and griefs are not easily adopted , nor can the attention ...
... lived and acted with manners uncommunicable ; so that it is difficult even for imagination to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by consequence their joys and griefs are not easily adopted , nor can the attention ...
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... lived five years ; in which time he is said to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be understood , who shail inform us ? It might be supposed , that he who read so much should have ...
... lived five years ; in which time he is said to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be understood , who shail inform us ? It might be supposed , that he who read so much should have ...
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... lived at Horton he used sometimes to steal from his studies a few days , which he spent at Harefield , the house of the countess dowager of Derby , where the Arcades made part of a dramatick entertainment . He began now to grow weary of ...
... lived at Horton he used sometimes to steal from his studies a few days , which he spent at Harefield , the house of the countess dowager of Derby , where the Arcades made part of a dramatick entertainment . He began now to grow weary of ...
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... Scriptures with the profoundest veneration , to have been untainted by any heretical peculiarity of opinion , and to have lived in a con- firmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of Providence firmed 75 MILTO N.
... Scriptures with the profoundest veneration , to have been untainted by any heretical peculiarity of opinion , and to have lived in a con- firmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of Providence firmed 75 MILTO N.
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