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... four odes • 235 · 237 A 239 · 240 23. To Dr. WHARTON . Of his own indolence . Memoirs of M. de la Porte and of Madame Staal . Intention of coming to town 24. To Mr. MASON . Of his reviewers . Offers to send him Druidical anecdotes for ...
... four odes • 235 · 237 A 239 · 240 23. To Dr. WHARTON . Of his own indolence . Memoirs of M. de la Porte and of Madame Staal . Intention of coming to town 24. To Mr. MASON . Of his reviewers . Offers to send him Druidical anecdotes for ...
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... four last years of Queen Anne 31. To Mr. STONHEWER . • Page · 256 On infidel writers and Lord Shaftsbury 257 A paper of Mr. Gray inserted , relating to an impious position of Lord Bolingbroke 32. To Dr. WHARTON . . writing an epitaph ...
... four last years of Queen Anne 31. To Mr. STONHEWER . • Page · 256 On infidel writers and Lord Shaftsbury 257 A paper of Mr. Gray inserted , relating to an impious position of Lord Bolingbroke 32. To Dr. WHARTON . . writing an epitaph ...
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... four - and - twenty steps more , I shall be just where I was : I may , better than most people , say my life is but a span , were I not afraid lest you should not believe that a person so short - lived could write even so long a letter ...
... four - and - twenty steps more , I shall be just where I was : I may , better than most people , say my life is but a span , were I not afraid lest you should not believe that a person so short - lived could write even so long a letter ...
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... four , but I would not give four far- things to demonstrate this ever so clearly ; and if these be the profits of life , give me the ( 16 )
... four , but I would not give four far- things to demonstrate this ever so clearly ; and if these be the profits of life , give me the ( 16 )
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... and nerves and spirits are , thank my stars , the very worst , I think , in Oxford . Four - and - twenty hours of pure unalloyed * A favourite object of Tory satire at the time . health together , are as unknown to me as the ( 29 )
... and nerves and spirits are , thank my stars , the very worst , I think , in Oxford . Four - and - twenty hours of pure unalloyed * A favourite object of Tory satire at the time . health together , are as unknown to me as the ( 29 )
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