The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 7Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1811 - Artists |
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... retirement , and became at once his benefactor and his friend . The year following appeared his beautiful novel of The Vicar of Wakefield , and from this moment he appeared in easy circumstances . He took chambers in the Temple , where ...
... retirement , and became at once his benefactor and his friend . The year following appeared his beautiful novel of The Vicar of Wakefield , and from this moment he appeared in easy circumstances . He took chambers in the Temple , where ...
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... age his genius and facility . He was educated at Eton , from whence he removed to Christ Church , Oxford . While at Eton , where his application was much commended , he pub- lished his " Monologue of a young Beauty retired into.
... age his genius and facility . He was educated at Eton , from whence he removed to Christ Church , Oxford . While at Eton , where his application was much commended , he pub- lished his " Monologue of a young Beauty retired into.
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Or, Biographical Review. lished his " Monologue of a young Beauty retired into the country , " an ingenious pleasantry , which displayed in the author a greater knowledge of the female mind than might have been expected from his years ...
Or, Biographical Review. lished his " Monologue of a young Beauty retired into the country , " an ingenious pleasantry , which displayed in the author a greater knowledge of the female mind than might have been expected from his years ...
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... retired from the in- trigues and dissensions of politics . But the labours of the statesman did not prevent Lyttleton from devoting his time to literary pursuits ; while on his travels he wrote two epistles in verse , one to Dr ...
... retired from the in- trigues and dissensions of politics . But the labours of the statesman did not prevent Lyttleton from devoting his time to literary pursuits ; while on his travels he wrote two epistles in verse , one to Dr ...
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... to prepare the minds of the people , that every year he spent the month of Ramadan in solitude and retirement , in a cave at mount Héra , at some distance from Mecca . His first proselytes were those , who having habitually been.
... to prepare the minds of the people , that every year he spent the month of Ramadan in solitude and retirement , in a cave at mount Héra , at some distance from Mecca . His first proselytes were those , who having habitually been.
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