Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Količina 3G. Bell and sons, 1890 |
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... continued his industry for seven years , with what improvement is sufficiently known . This part of his story well deserves to be remembered ; it may afford useful admonition and powerful encouragement to men , whose abilities have been ...
... continued his industry for seven years , with what improvement is sufficiently known . This part of his story well deserves to be remembered ; it may afford useful admonition and powerful encouragement to men , whose abilities have been ...
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... continued his studies , and is known to have read , among other books , " Cyprian " and " Irenæus . " He thought exercise of great necessity , and used to run half a mile up and down a hill every two hours . * It is easy to imagine that ...
... continued his studies , and is known to have read , among other books , " Cyprian " and " Irenæus . " He thought exercise of great necessity , and used to run half a mile up and down a hill every two hours . * It is easy to imagine that ...
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... continued without end , if he could have continued his annual plunder . But Swift , I suppose , did not yet know what he has since written , that a commission was drawn which would have appointed him General for life , had it not become ...
... continued without end , if he could have continued his annual plunder . But Swift , I suppose , did not yet know what he has since written , that a commission was drawn which would have appointed him General for life , had it not become ...
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... continued in their places . But every man of known influence has so many petitions which he cannot grant , that he must necessarily offend more than he grati- fies , because the preference given to one affords all the rest a reason for ...
... continued in their places . But every man of known influence has so many petitions which he cannot grant , that he must necessarily offend more than he grati- fies , because the preference given to one affords all the rest a reason for ...
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... continued it for the pleasure of accumulating money . His avarice , however , was not suffered to obstruct the claims of his dignity ; he was served in plate , and used to say that he was the poorest gentleman in Ireland that eat upon ...
... continued it for the pleasure of accumulating money . His avarice , however , was not suffered to obstruct the claims of his dignity ; he was served in plate , and used to say that he was the poorest gentleman in Ireland that eat upon ...
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