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Pagina 78
... pleased to find himself imitated in six lines , * To Trinity College . By the University regis- ter it appears that he was admitted to his master's degree in 1679 ; we must , therefore , set the year of his birth some years back . - Н ...
... pleased to find himself imitated in six lines , * To Trinity College . By the University regis- ter it appears that he was admitted to his master's degree in 1679 ; we must , therefore , set the year of his birth some years back . - Н ...
Pagina 80
... pleased to say , it is yet doubtful if the Hollanders are rash enough to make such an attempt ; but be that as it will , I beg leave to in- sist upon it , that I may be presented to his Majes- ty , as one whose utmost ambition it is to ...
... pleased to say , it is yet doubtful if the Hollanders are rash enough to make such an attempt ; but be that as it will , I beg leave to in- sist upon it , that I may be presented to his Majes- ty , as one whose utmost ambition it is to ...
Pagina 81
... pleased to believe me always , with the utmost duty and submission , Sir , " Your most dutiful son , " And most obedient servant , " GEO . GRANVILLE . " Through the whole reign of King William he is supposed to have lived in literary ...
... pleased to believe me always , with the utmost duty and submission , Sir , " Your most dutiful son , " And most obedient servant , " GEO . GRANVILLE . " Through the whole reign of King William he is supposed to have lived in literary ...
Pagina 87
... pleased the president , that he told him his former suspicions , and promised to favour him . Among his contemporaries in the College were Addison and Sacheverell , men who were in those times friends , and who both adopted Yalden to ...
... pleased the president , that he told him his former suspicions , and promised to favour him . Among his contemporaries in the College were Addison and Sacheverell , men who were in those times friends , and who both adopted Yalden to ...
Pagina 100
... pleased the world , to be plagued and threatened by wretches that are low in every sense ; to be forced to drink himself into pains of the body , in order to get rid of the pains of the mind , is a misery . " He died July 19 , 1742 ...
... pleased the world , to be plagued and threatened by wretches that are low in every sense ; to be forced to drink himself into pains of the body , in order to get rid of the pains of the mind , is a misery . " He died July 19 , 1742 ...
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