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Pagina 128
... pleasure of affluence to that of integrity . On this , and on many other occasions , he was ready to lament the misery of living at the tables of other men , which was his fate from the beginning to the end of his life ; for I know not ...
... pleasure of affluence to that of integrity . On this , and on many other occasions , he was ready to lament the misery of living at the tables of other men , which was his fate from the beginning to the end of his life ; for I know not ...
Pagina 226
... pleasure of complaining . The greatest difficulty that occurs , in analysing his character , is to discover by what depravity of intellect he took delight in revolving ideas , from which almost every other mind shrinks with disgust ...
... pleasure of complaining . The greatest difficulty that occurs , in analysing his character , is to discover by what depravity of intellect he took delight in revolving ideas , from which almost every other mind shrinks with disgust ...
Pagina 430
... pleasure . Nor can I account for the pleasure of rhyme in general ( of which the moderns are too fond ) but from this truth . " Yet the moderns surely deserve not much censure for their 430 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... pleasure . Nor can I account for the pleasure of rhyme in general ( of which the moderns are too fond ) but from this truth . " Yet the moderns surely deserve not much censure for their 430 LIVES OF THE POETS.
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