The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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... lady of my acquaintance remembers to have heard her uncle sing those homely stanzas more than forty - five years ago . He repeated the second thus ; She shall breed young lords and ladies fair , And ride abroad in a coach and three pair ...
... lady of my acquaintance remembers to have heard her uncle sing those homely stanzas more than forty - five years ago . He repeated the second thus ; She shall breed young lords and ladies fair , And ride abroad in a coach and three pair ...
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... lady . " The man so busy about addresses is neither more nor less than our own Boswell , who had come as far as York towards London , but turned back on the dissolution , and is said now to stand for some place . Whether to wish him ...
... lady . " The man so busy about addresses is neither more nor less than our own Boswell , who had come as far as York towards London , but turned back on the dissolution , and is said now to stand for some place . Whether to wish him ...
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... ladies endeavoured to defend their sex from this charge ; but he roared them down . " No , no ; a lady will take Jonathan Wild as readily as St. Austin , if he has threepence more ; and , what is worse , her parents will give her to him ...
... ladies endeavoured to defend their sex from this charge ; but he roared them down . " No , no ; a lady will take Jonathan Wild as readily as St. Austin , if he has threepence more ; and , what is worse , her parents will give her to him ...
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