The monuments and genii of st. Paul's cathedral and of Westminster abbey, Volume 2John Williams, 1826 |
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... honour to his execution . Every passion of the human breast seemed subjected to his powers of expression ; nay , even time itself appeared to stand still , or ad- vance , as he would have it . Rage and ridicule , doubt and de- spair ...
... honour to his execution . Every passion of the human breast seemed subjected to his powers of expression ; nay , even time itself appeared to stand still , or ad- vance , as he would have it . Rage and ridicule , doubt and de- spair ...
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... honour or profit . Yet he seems to have regarded it with tenderness ; for , seventeen years after- wards , when the town was flushed with the success of the Beg- gar's Opera , ' he reproduced it , with alterations , and had the mor ...
... honour or profit . Yet he seems to have regarded it with tenderness ; for , seventeen years after- wards , when the town was flushed with the success of the Beg- gar's Opera , ' he reproduced it , with alterations , and had the mor ...
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... honours of a political satire , and the Lord Chamberlain refused his sanction to the performance of a coun- terpart . From any loss consequent upon this new discomfiture , however , the attention of Gay's friends secured his purse ...
... honours of a political satire , and the Lord Chamberlain refused his sanction to the performance of a coun- terpart . From any loss consequent upon this new discomfiture , however , the attention of Gay's friends secured his purse ...
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... Honour by his much obliged Daughter in law , HENRIETTA GODOLPHIN . The life of Sidney Godolphin , Earl of Godolphin , was so strictly political , and all that is either interesting or memorable in his conduct is , so closely interwoven ...
... Honour by his much obliged Daughter in law , HENRIETTA GODOLPHIN . The life of Sidney Godolphin , Earl of Godolphin , was so strictly political , and all that is either interesting or memorable in his conduct is , so closely interwoven ...
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... honour or emolument , from the shrievalty of a county , and a seat on a jury , down to a petty constableship , or a vote at a vestry , or the election of a member of parlia ment . Such was the enervation of his country , and such the ...
... honour or emolument , from the shrievalty of a county , and a seat on a jury , down to a petty constableship , or a vote at a vestry , or the election of a member of parlia ment . Such was the enervation of his country , and such the ...
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