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The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives - Page 91
by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
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Representative Biographies of English Men of Letters

Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 666 pages
...was contracted. His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very...
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Representative Biographies of English Men of Letters

Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 666 pages
...was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very difficult for him to be clean. His hair had fallen almost all away; and he used to dine sometimes with Lord Oxford, privately, in a velvet cap. His dress...
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1730-1784

Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 pages
...was contracted. His legs were so slender that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid ; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very...
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Thames-side in the Past: Sketches of Its Literature & Society

Francis Cotterell Hodgson - 1913 - 464 pages
...waistcoat. ... His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pairs of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid, for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help." Thus dependent on servants...
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The Library

Sir John Young Walker MacAlister, Alfred William Pollard, Ronald Brunlees McKerrow, Sir Frank Chalton Francis - 1920 - 320 pages
...contracted. His legs ' were so slender that he enlarged their bulk with three pairs ' of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid : ' for he was not able to undress himself, and neither went to ' bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very ' difficult...
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Architects of English Literature: Biographical Sketches of Great Writers ...

Robert Farquharson Sharp - 1900 - 566 pages
...was contracted. His legs were so slender that he enlarged their bulk with three pairs of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid, for he was not able to dress or undress himself. His stature was so low that, to bring him to a level with common tables,...
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The Age of Pope: (1700-1744)

John Dennis - 1928 - 280 pages
...was contracted. His legs were so slender that he enlarged their bulk with three pairs of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid ; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very...
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A Survey of English Literature, 1730-1780, Volume 1

Oliver Elton - 1928 - 444 pages
...was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very difficult for him to be clean. His hair had fallen almost all away, and he used to dine sometimes with Lord Oxford, privately, in a velvet cap. His dress...
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Great Short Biographies of the World: A Collection of Short Biographies ...

Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 pages
...His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pairs of stockings, which \\i-ti- drawn on and off by the maid: for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness nudo it very...
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Women's Place in Pope's World

Valerie Rumbold - 1989 - 342 pages
...was contracted. His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very...
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