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A scholar of the Charterhouse , London , and at King's College , Oxford . He was the author of the tragedy “ Cato , " " Travels in Italy , " and of many famous contributions to the Spectator and Tatler , of which Richard Steele was ...
A scholar of the Charterhouse , London , and at King's College , Oxford . He was the author of the tragedy “ Cato , " " Travels in Italy , " and of many famous contributions to the Spectator and Tatler , of which Richard Steele was ...
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I have left the repository of our English kings for the contemplation of another day , when I shall find my mind disposed for so serious an amusement . I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark ADDISON II.
I have left the repository of our English kings for the contemplation of another day , when I shall find my mind disposed for so serious an amusement . I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark ADDISON II.
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When I see kings lying by those who deposed them , when I consider rival wits placed side by side , or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes , I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little ...
When I see kings lying by those who deposed them , when I consider rival wits placed side by side , or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes , I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little ...
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But the age in which the pun chiefly flourished , was in the reign of King James I. That learned monarch was himself a tolerable punster , and made very few bishops or privycounselors that had not some time or other signalized ...
But the age in which the pun chiefly flourished , was in the reign of King James I. That learned monarch was himself a tolerable punster , and made very few bishops or privycounselors that had not some time or other signalized ...
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Behold , how fast around me , The new King of the happy ones sublime Has flung the chain he forged , has shamed and bound me ! Woe , woe ! to - day's woe and the coming morrow's I cover with one groan . And where is found me A limit to ...
Behold , how fast around me , The new King of the happy ones sublime Has flung the chain he forged , has shamed and bound me ! Woe , woe ! to - day's woe and the coming morrow's I cover with one groan . And where is found me A limit to ...
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| Title | The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Greatest Writers Volume 1 of The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, John Lawson Stoddard |
| Author | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Compiled by | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Publisher | G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
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