Chatterton: A Story of the Year 1770 |
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... booksellers ? Poor mortals that we are , how we do make the most of our own little portion in the general drama of history ! Nor are we quite wrong , after all . There is nothing really to laugh at in our laborious anxieties about this ...
... booksellers ? Poor mortals that we are , how we do make the most of our own little portion in the general drama of history ! Nor are we quite wrong , after all . There is nothing really to laugh at in our laborious anxieties about this ...
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... 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 mere chance ) ...
... 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 mere chance ) ...
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... bookseller , Mr. Bathoe , of the Strand ( the first man , by - the - bye , that kept a circulating library in London ) . Opening the packet , he finds , first of all , the following note : - " SIR , -Being versed a little in antiquities ...
... bookseller , Mr. Bathoe , of the Strand ( the first man , by - the - bye , that kept a circulating library in London ) . Opening the packet , he finds , first of all , the following note : - " SIR , -Being versed a little in antiquities ...
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... bookseller in St. James's Church , Westminster , where he was buried , is to the same effect . " He was a man , " says the epitaph , “ of a retired and contemplative turn of mind , though engaged in a very extensive line of public ...
... bookseller in St. James's Church , Westminster , where he was buried , is to the same effect . " He was a man , " says the epitaph , “ of a retired and contemplative turn of mind , though engaged in a very extensive line of public ...
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... bookseller on a large scale , and a publisher of poetry ; it was to him that Chatterton had applied by letter sixteen months before as a likely person to publish his Ella ; one or two letters had probably passed between them since ; and ...
... bookseller on a large scale , and a publisher of poetry ; it was to him that Chatterton had applied by letter sixteen months before as a likely person to publish his Ella ; one or two letters had probably passed between them since ; and ...
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