Chatterton: A Story of the Year 1770 |
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Page 56
... Dodsley , the publisher of Pall Mall , the brother and successor in business of the more celebrated Robert Dodsley , the author of the " Muse in Livery , " and other trifles of some note in their day , and the projector , along with ...
... Dodsley , the publisher of Pall Mall , the brother and successor in business of the more celebrated Robert Dodsley , the author of the " Muse in Livery , " and other trifles of some note in their day , and the projector , along with ...
Page 57
... Dodsley out to Chatterton as a likely person for Accordingly , one morning towards the Christmas of 1768 , the worthy publisher , entering his shop in Pall Mall , finds among his letters one from Bristol , addressed in a neat small hand ...
... Dodsley out to Chatterton as a likely person for Accordingly , one morning towards the Christmas of 1768 , the worthy publisher , entering his shop in Pall Mall , finds among his letters one from Bristol , addressed in a neat small hand ...
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... DODSLEY , Bookseller , Pall Mall , London . " This clumsy attempt to extract a guinea from the publisher ( Chatterton had probably just finished his own manuscript of Ella , and did not like the notion of copying out so long a poem on ...
... DODSLEY , Bookseller , Pall Mall , London . " This clumsy attempt to extract a guinea from the publisher ( Chatterton had probably just finished his own manuscript of Ella , and did not like the notion of copying out so long a poem on ...
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... Dodsley . Great encouragement from them ; all approved of my design . Shall soon be settled . Call upon Mr. Lambert ; show him this ; or tell him , if I deserve a recommendation , he would oblige me to give me one : if I do not , it ...
... Dodsley . Great encouragement from them ; all approved of my design . Shall soon be settled . Call upon Mr. Lambert ; show him this ; or tell him , if I deserve a recommendation , he would oblige me to give me one : if I do not , it ...
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... Dodsley . Let us see if we can make out anything respecting those gentlemen . They were the first persons Chatterton visited in London , and some of them had not a little to do with his subsequent fate . Mr. Edmunds has been already ...
... Dodsley . Let us see if we can make out anything respecting those gentlemen . They were the first persons Chatterton visited in London , and some of them had not a little to do with his subsequent fate . Mr. Edmunds has been already ...
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