The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events : St. Paul's to St. James'sUnit Library, 1903 - 626 pages |
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... ADMIRATION OF THE COMFORTS OF MR POVEY . SURGEONS ' COLLEGE . SIR RICHARD AND LADY FANSHAWE , AND LORD SANDWICH . EXECUTION OF THE PATRIOTIC LORD RUSSELL , WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE CIRCUM- STANCES THAT LED TO AND ACCOMPANIED IT , AND SOME ...
... ADMIRATION OF THE COMFORTS OF MR POVEY . SURGEONS ' COLLEGE . SIR RICHARD AND LADY FANSHAWE , AND LORD SANDWICH . EXECUTION OF THE PATRIOTIC LORD RUSSELL , WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE CIRCUM- STANCES THAT LED TO AND ACCOMPANIED IT , AND SOME ...
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... admired Dr Johnson , he might have delighted in calling to mind the metropolis of the wits of Queen Anne's time , and of the poets of Elizabeth ; might have longed to sit over their canary in Cornhill with Beaumont and Ben Jonson , and ...
... admired Dr Johnson , he might have delighted in calling to mind the metropolis of the wits of Queen Anne's time , and of the poets of Elizabeth ; might have longed to sit over their canary in Cornhill with Beaumont and Ben Jonson , and ...
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... admiration to the abundance of Brentford stages . Milton , who began a History of England , very properly touches upon the fabulous part of it ; not , as Dr Johnson thought ( who did not take the trouble of reading the second page ) ...
... admiration to the abundance of Brentford stages . Milton , who began a History of England , very properly touches upon the fabulous part of it ; not , as Dr Johnson thought ( who did not take the trouble of reading the second page ) ...
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... admire her choyce , wherein she most excels . He then aspires , says the writer , to " the highest sub- ject's seat , " and becomes Lord Chancelour ( measure and conscience of a holy king :) Robe , Collar , Garter , dead figures of ...
... admire her choyce , wherein she most excels . He then aspires , says the writer , to " the highest sub- ject's seat , " and becomes Lord Chancelour ( measure and conscience of a holy king :) Robe , Collar , Garter , dead figures of ...
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... admire as a poet , than to quarrel as a critic or a sectary . Gill , unluckily for himself , was not so catholic . Some say he was suspended from his mastership for severity ; a quality which he must have carried to a great pitch , for ...
... admire as a poet , than to quarrel as a critic or a sectary . Gill , unluckily for himself , was not so catholic . Some say he was suspended from his mastership for severity ; a quality which he must have carried to a great pitch , for ...
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