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Pagina 194
... passed those days and those nights which nature had enabled him to have em- ployed in elevated speculations , useful studies , or pleasing conversations . On a bulk , in a cellar , or in a glass - house , among thieves and beggars , was ...
... passed those days and those nights which nature had enabled him to have em- ployed in elevated speculations , useful studies , or pleasing conversations . On a bulk , in a cellar , or in a glass - house , among thieves and beggars , was ...
Pagina 220
... passed his time , and the treatment which he received , are very justly expressed by him in a letter which he wrote to a friend : " The whole day , " says he , " has been employed in various people's filling my head with their foolish ...
... passed his time , and the treatment which he received , are very justly expressed by him in a letter which he wrote to a friend : " The whole day , " says he , " has been employed in various people's filling my head with their foolish ...
Pagina 334
... passed through common life , sometimes vexed , and sometimes pleased , with the natural emotions of common men . His scorn of the Great is repeated too often to be real ; no man thinks much of that which he despises ; and as falsehood ...
... passed through common life , sometimes vexed , and sometimes pleased , with the natural emotions of common men . His scorn of the Great is repeated too often to be real ; no man thinks much of that which he despises ; and as falsehood ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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