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When the great duke of Marlborough , accom- panied by lord Cadogan , was one day reconnoitring the army in Flanders , a heavy rain came on , and they both called for their cloaks . Lord Cadogan's servant , a ADVERTISEMENT . xiii.
When the great duke of Marlborough , accom- panied by lord Cadogan , was one day reconnoitring the army in Flanders , a heavy rain came on , and they both called for their cloaks . Lord Cadogan's servant , a ADVERTISEMENT . xiii.
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called for their cloaks . Lord Cadogan's servant , a good- humoured alert lad , brought his lordship's in a minute . The duke's servant , a lazy sulky dog , was so sluggish , that his grace being wet to the skin , reproved him , and had ...
called for their cloaks . Lord Cadogan's servant , a good- humoured alert lad , brought his lordship's in a minute . The duke's servant , a lazy sulky dog , was so sluggish , that his grace being wet to the skin , reproved him , and had ...
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Preface and postscript to Lauder's pamphlet , entitled , an Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of the Moderns in his Paradise Lost ; acknowl . 1751. Life of Cheynel , in the miscellany called the Student ...
Preface and postscript to Lauder's pamphlet , entitled , an Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of the Moderns in his Paradise Lost ; acknowl . 1751. Life of Cheynel , in the miscellany called the Student ...
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Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia , a Tale ; acknowl . Advertisement for the proprietors of the Idler against certain persons who pirated those papers as they came out singly in a newspaper called the Universal Chronicle , or Weekly Gazette ...
Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia , a Tale ; acknowl . Advertisement for the proprietors of the Idler against certain persons who pirated those papers as they came out singly in a newspaper called the Universal Chronicle , or Weekly Gazette ...
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Mrs. q " I was , by my father's persuasion , put to one Marclew , commonly called Bellison , the servant or wife of a servant of my father , to be nursed , in George- lane . Here it was discovered that my eyes were bad , and an issue ...
Mrs. q " I was , by my father's persuasion , put to one Marclew , commonly called Bellison , the servant or wife of a servant of my father , to be nursed , in George- lane . Here it was discovered that my eyes were bad , and an issue ...
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| Title | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Oxford English classics Volume 1 of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, James Boswell |
| Author | James Boswell |
| Publisher | Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Sep 2010 |
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