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... thought myself at home , being not far from my friend's house , and therefore parted with a moiety of all my store . And pray , mother , ought I not to have given her the other half crown , for what she got would be of little use to her ...
... thought myself at home , being not far from my friend's house , and therefore parted with a moiety of all my store . And pray , mother , ought I not to have given her the other half crown , for what she got would be of little use to her ...
Page 192
... thought he had already done his part as a writer . " I should have thought so too , " said the King , " if you had not written so well . " " No man , " observes Johnson , commenting on this speech , " could have made a handsomer ...
... thought he had already done his part as a writer . " I should have thought so too , " said the King , " if you had not written so well . " " No man , " observes Johnson , commenting on this speech , " could have made a handsomer ...
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... thought “ a mawkish thing . " " We are all in labor for a name for Goldy's play , " says Johnson . What now stands as the second title , The Mis- takes of a Night is originally the only one , but it is thought undignified for a comedy ...
... thought “ a mawkish thing . " " We are all in labor for a name for Goldy's play , " says Johnson . What now stands as the second title , The Mis- takes of a Night is originally the only one , but it is thought undignified for a comedy ...
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