Anecdotes, Observations and Characters, of Books and Men, Collected from the Conversation of Pope and Other Eminent Persons. With Notes and a Life of the Author by Samuel Weller Singer. 2. EdSmith, 1858 - Počet stran: 396 |
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... pounds , he entertained thoughts of indulging his propensity , by the purchase of a small house and a few acres of ground in the country . Having casually mentioned this intention to his friend Lord Lincoln , he very generously offered ...
... pounds , he entertained thoughts of indulging his propensity , by the purchase of a small house and a few acres of ground in the country . Having casually mentioned this intention to his friend Lord Lincoln , he very generously offered ...
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... pounds , not often . - P . Wycherley was fifteen or sixteen when he went into France ; and was acquainted there with Madame de Ram- bouillet , a little after Balzac's death . — He was not unvain of his face . That is a fine portrait ...
... pounds , not often . - P . Wycherley was fifteen or sixteen when he went into France ; and was acquainted there with Madame de Ram- bouillet , a little after Balzac's death . — He was not unvain of his face . That is a fine portrait ...
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... pounds . He had therefore long resolved to marry ; in order to make a settlement from the estate , to pay off his debts with his wife's fortune and " to plague his damned nephew , " as he used to express it . This was just about the ...
... pounds . He had therefore long resolved to marry ; in order to make a settlement from the estate , to pay off his debts with his wife's fortune and " to plague his damned nephew , " as he used to express it . This was just about the ...
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... pounds a month , for what we call pin money , ) in charities . The king does not much care for her , but the cardinal often makes him say kind things to her.-R. " When the king was a child , he showed a SECTION I. 1728-30 . 29.
... pounds a month , for what we call pin money , ) in charities . The king does not much care for her , but the cardinal often makes him say kind things to her.-R. " When the king was a child , he showed a SECTION I. 1728-30 . 29.
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... for governor to the late Duke of Richmond ; and was to have been allowed fifteen hundred pounds a year * The three preceding articles are from MS . B. D from the government . His absence from court in the SECTION I. 1728-30 . 33.
... for governor to the late Duke of Richmond ; and was to have been allowed fifteen hundred pounds a year * The three preceding articles are from MS . B. D from the government . His absence from court in the SECTION I. 1728-30 . 33.
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