The monuments and genii of st. Paul's cathedral and of Westminster abbey, Volume 2John Williams, 1826 |
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... English blood , who , after having dined at a tavern , and swallowed three or four bottles of Port , mounts his horse on a summer evening to go to his box in the country . ' Proceeding immediately to exhibit all the gradations of ...
... English blood , who , after having dined at a tavern , and swallowed three or four bottles of Port , mounts his horse on a summer evening to go to his box in the country . ' Proceeding immediately to exhibit all the gradations of ...
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... English stage . 6 The profits of the ' Beggar's Opera ' amounted to 4007. and the author forthwith set to work upon a sequel to it , which he called Polly ' but , before the latter was completed , the former was cried up to the honours ...
... English stage . 6 The profits of the ' Beggar's Opera ' amounted to 4007. and the author forthwith set to work upon a sequel to it , which he called Polly ' but , before the latter was completed , the former was cried up to the honours ...
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... English gentleman , whom he accompanied to Geneva , and was then recommended for a tutor to another countryman , a youth who , suddenly elevated from the desk of an attorney's clerk to the possession of independent fortune , the bequest ...
... English gentleman , whom he accompanied to Geneva , and was then recommended for a tutor to another countryman , a youth who , suddenly elevated from the desk of an attorney's clerk to the possession of independent fortune , the bequest ...
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... English life afforded no such reliefs to the shades of distress as those which were formerly peculiar to the continent . He applied to several apothecaries for the humble occupation of a journeyman chemist , but , so rough was his ...
... English life afforded no such reliefs to the shades of distress as those which were formerly peculiar to the continent . He applied to several apothecaries for the humble occupation of a journeyman chemist , but , so rough was his ...
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... English Poetry , ' were produced during the summer of 1763 , while lodging at Canon- bury House , Islington . Of the latter performance he was parti- cularly vain , for he used to remark , that above all his other pub- lications it ...
... English Poetry , ' were produced during the summer of 1763 , while lodging at Canon- bury House , Islington . Of the latter performance he was parti- cularly vain , for he used to remark , that above all his other pub- lications it ...
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The Monuments and Genii of St. Paul's Cathedral, and of Westminster Abbey ... George Lewis Smyth No preview available - 2015 |
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