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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ... - Page 91
by James Boswell - 1786
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...well ; A simple Quaker, or a Quaker's wife, Outdo Landaff in doetrine, — yea in life : Let low-bom Ⴠ h ; Virtue may ehoose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me ; Dwell in a monk,...
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The Poetical Works, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...well ; A simple quaker, or a quaker's wife, Outdo Landaffin doctrine, — yea in life : Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame : Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue and to me; . Dwell in a monk,...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 21

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 842 pages
...fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow ; Now sighs ¡teal out, and tears begin to flow. Pope. Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame. Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Id. A factor itole a gem away. Id. At a time when he had no steward, he itole away. Saift'. Variety...
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The Southern Review, Volume 4

1829 - 552 pages
...individual, on whom Pope has conferred the immortality of his verse in the well remembered lines, Let humble Allen with an awkward shame Do good by stealth and blush to call il fame. Nor is it less a subject of sympathy and interest, that the beautiful wife of poor Fielding,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...well ; A simple quakcr, or a quaker's wife, Outdo LandalT in doctrine, — yea in life : Let humble ^2[ 4O MvPA\ٌ4 ? t |Q `E ; : Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue and to me ; Dwell in a monk,...
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Volume 1

Henry Fielding, Walter Scott - 1831 - 564 pages
...unnamed, by his own desire : thus confirming the truth of Pope's beautiful couplet : — Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. It is said that this munificent and modest patron made Fielding a present of 200/. at one time, and...
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The history of Tom Jones

Henry Fielding - 1832 - 438 pages
...unnamed, by his own desire ; thus confirming the truth of Pope's beautiful couplet : — Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame. It is said that this munificent and modest patron made Fielding a present of 2CXH. at one time, and...
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Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Novelists, and Other Distinguished ..., Volume 3

Walter Scott - 1834 - 492 pages
...unnamed, by his own desire ; thus confirming the truth of Pope's beautiful couplet — "Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame." It is said that this munificent and modest patron made Fielding a present of L.200 at one time, and...
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The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and ...

William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...4-10 An ass's burthen, and when laden most And heaviest, light of foot steals fast away. 23 Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Pope. Epis. to Sut. Grand reservoirs of public happiness Through secret streams diffusively they bless...
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Translation from Madame de La Mothe-Guion. The task. Tirocinium. John Gilpin ...

William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...440 An ass's burthen, and when laden most And heaviest, light of foot steals fast away. 53 Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Pope. Epls. to Sat. Grand reservoirs of public happiness Through secret streams diffusively they bless...
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