Chatterton: a Biographical StudyMacmillan and Company, 1869 - 328 pages |
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... Wilkes for its hero ; and his masterpieces are obscured , almost to repulsiveness , by an affectation of antiquity . Good men long refused his monument admission to consecrated ground : for he died an unbeliever , and by his own hand ...
... Wilkes for its hero ; and his masterpieces are obscured , almost to repulsiveness , by an affectation of antiquity . Good men long refused his monument admission to consecrated ground : for he died an unbeliever , and by his own hand ...
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... Wilkes's Middlesex election , his expulsion from Parliament , and universal political ferment in conse- quence ; and its memorialist selects as preeminent among the distinguished members of the new charity ' Henry Cruger , so highly ...
... Wilkes's Middlesex election , his expulsion from Parliament , and universal political ferment in conse- quence ; and its memorialist selects as preeminent among the distinguished members of the new charity ' Henry Cruger , so highly ...
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... Wilkes and Liberty , " Mr. Clay- Political field can scarcely be supposed to have had any sympathy ; sympathies . for the most noticeable fact now recoverable concerning him is that his name figures among the Presidents of , the Dolphin ...
... Wilkes and Liberty , " Mr. Clay- Political field can scarcely be supposed to have had any sympathy ; sympathies . for the most noticeable fact now recoverable concerning him is that his name figures among the Presidents of , the Dolphin ...
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... other judicial matters ; including the famous " Douglas Cause , " and the Great Wilkes ' question ; accounts of geographical discoveries ; 1 Maitland , p . 48 . CHAP . X. tions . notices of local curiosities and 206 CHATTERTON .
... other judicial matters ; including the famous " Douglas Cause , " and the Great Wilkes ' question ; accounts of geographical discoveries ; 1 Maitland , p . 48 . CHAP . X. tions . notices of local curiosities and 206 CHATTERTON .
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... Wilkes , Lord Mayor Beckford , Lord Chancellor Camden , the Corsican patriot , Paoli ; and an elaborately executed plate of Garrick reciting his Ode in honour of Shakespeare , at the Stratford Jubilee of that year . Among other ...
... Wilkes , Lord Mayor Beckford , Lord Chancellor Camden , the Corsican patriot , Paoli ; and an elaborately executed plate of Garrick reciting his Ode in honour of Shakespeare , at the Stratford Jubilee of that year . Among other ...
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