Chatterton: A Story of the Year 1770 |
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... pieces , and when alarming pamphlets on " the present crisis " did not lie unbought on the counters of the booksellers ? Poor mortals that we are , how we do make the most of our own little portion in the general drama of history ! Nor ...
... pieces , and when alarming pamphlets on " the present crisis " did not lie unbought on the counters of the booksellers ? Poor mortals that we are , how we do make the most of our own little portion in the general drama of history ! Nor ...
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... Piece after piece was dropped by him during a period of three years into the letter - box of the accommodating Journal . Only one of these , how- ever , is it necessary to mention particularly — a little lampoon , printed the 7th of ...
... Piece after piece was dropped by him during a period of three years into the letter - box of the accommodating Journal . Only one of these , how- ever , is it necessary to mention particularly — a little lampoon , printed the 7th of ...
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... piece of sacrilege , as his ancestors , the Chattertons , had been sextons of the church of St. Mary Redcliffe for a period of one hundred and fifty years continuously . The office had , in fact , only passed out of the family on the ...
... piece of sacrilege , as his ancestors , the Chattertons , had been sextons of the church of St. Mary Redcliffe for a period of one hundred and fifty years continuously . The office had , in fact , only passed out of the family on the ...
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... piece of genealogical and heraldic ingenuity done for Mr. Burgum , as well as by the occasional exercise in a more or less public manner of his talent for verse - making , Chatterton , already recognised as the first for attainments ...
... piece of genealogical and heraldic ingenuity done for Mr. Burgum , as well as by the occasional exercise in a more or less public manner of his talent for verse - making , Chatterton , already recognised as the first for attainments ...
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... piece of antiquity in the shape of a pedigree for Mr. Burgum , the pewterer . Examined , coaxed , and threatened , on the subject of his authority , Chatterton prevaricated , but at last adhered to the assertion that the manuscript in ...
... piece of antiquity in the shape of a pedigree for Mr. Burgum , the pewterer . Examined , coaxed , and threatened , on the subject of his authority , Chatterton prevaricated , but at last adhered to the assertion that the manuscript in ...
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