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... appearance in a new and illustrated form . It has been carefully revised for this Edition ; a number of Supplementary Notes have been added by way of Appendix ; and , as far as possible , it has been brought down to the present day . It ...
... appearance in a new and illustrated form . It has been carefully revised for this Edition ; a number of Supplementary Notes have been added by way of Appendix ; and , as far as possible , it has been brought down to the present day . It ...
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... appearance together . ' He was buried in the north aisle of Henry the Seventh's Chapel ; but his grave was unmarked for nearly a century , and the monument to his memory in the Poets ' Corner was not erected until 1808 . Addison's body ...
... appearance together . ' He was buried in the north aisle of Henry the Seventh's Chapel ; but his grave was unmarked for nearly a century , and the monument to his memory in the Poets ' Corner was not erected until 1808 . Addison's body ...
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... appearance in the world . ( 1818 ) , p.331 . Although Bucke , in his ' Life of Akenside , ' says that the remainder of his life was passed in Bloomsbury Square , he is known to have been living in Craven Street , Strand , in 1759 ...
... appearance in the world . ( 1818 ) , p.331 . Although Bucke , in his ' Life of Akenside , ' says that the remainder of his life was passed in Bloomsbury Square , he is known to have been living in Craven Street , Strand , in 1759 ...
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... appearance of a dwelling- house two hundred years old or so , such as one some- times sees in ancient country towns ; the ceilings of the small rooms were low , and had heavy beams run- ning across them ; the walls were wainscoted ...
... appearance of a dwelling- house two hundred years old or so , such as one some- times sees in ancient country towns ; the ceilings of the small rooms were low , and had heavy beams run- ning across them ; the walls were wainscoted ...
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... appearance when Drayton occupied it , and published in 1608 an edition of his ' Poems''at the Shop of John Smithwick , St. Dunstan's Church Yard under the Diall . ' This churchyard , facing Fleet Street , was the Paternoster Row of that ...
... appearance when Drayton occupied it , and published in 1608 an edition of his ' Poems''at the Shop of John Smithwick , St. Dunstan's Church Yard under the Diall . ' This churchyard , facing Fleet Street , was the Paternoster Row of that ...
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الصفحة 108 - love as my own soul : if you survive me, as you certainly will, if a stone shall mark the place of my grave, see these words put upon it : — "Life is a jest and all things show it : I thought so once, and now I know it,
الصفحة 116 - sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money ; and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill. In 1764 Johnson found Goldsmith in a humble set of chambers at No. 2 Garden Court, Middle Temple, near the New Library and behind Fountain Court.
الصفحة 172 - performances. Shakspere with the English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention. As Fuller was
الصفحة 116 - I accordingly went to him as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had a bottle of Madeira and a glass
الصفحة 157 - towards us, he announced his awful approach to me somewhat in the manner of an actor in the part of Horatio, when he addresses Hamlet on the appearance of his father's ghost, ' Look, my lord, it comes ! ' 1 found that I had a very perfect idea of Johnson's figure, from a
الصفحة 76 - Whereas, Daniel De Foe, alias De Fooe, is charged with writing a scandalous and seditious pamphlet entitled ' The Shortest Way with the Dissenters.' He is a middle-sized spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion, and dark brown colored hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked
الصفحة 7 - while I seem attentive to nothing but the ' Postman,' overhear the conversation of every table in the room. I appear on Sunday nights at the St. James's Coffee House, and sometimes join the committee of politics in the inner room as one who comes there to hear and improve.
الصفحة 116 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith, that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as
الصفحة 119 - passed to-day where you and I dined; I ask your pardon.' Goldsmith answered placidly, ' It must be much from yon, sir, that I take ill ; ' and so at once the difference was over, and they were on as easy terms as ever, and Goldsmith rattled away as usual.
الصفحة 118 - died of a fever, made, I am afraid, more violent by uneasiness of mind. His debts began to be heavy, and all his resources were exhausted. Sir Joshua is of opinion that he owed no less than two thousand pounds. Was ever poet so trusted before ?