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Page lxxi
... hour of his death , which seems to have been accelerated by a neglect of his health , occasioned by continual vexation of mind , arising from his involved circumstances . Death , I really believe , was wel- come to a man of his great ...
... hour of his death , which seems to have been accelerated by a neglect of his health , occasioned by continual vexation of mind , arising from his involved circumstances . Death , I really believe , was wel- come to a man of his great ...
Page lxxx
... hour ; pray allow us now to hear him . ' Johnson ( sternly ) : ' Sir , I was not interrupting the gentleman ; I was only giving him a signal of my attention . Sir , you are impertinent . ' Goldsmith made no reply , but continued in the ...
... hour ; pray allow us now to hear him . ' Johnson ( sternly ) : ' Sir , I was not interrupting the gentleman ; I was only giving him a signal of my attention . Sir , you are impertinent . ' Goldsmith made no reply , but continued in the ...
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... hour . ' But , in truth , he understood not the character in which music is written , and played on that instrument , as many of the vulgar do , merely by ear . Roubiliac , the sculptor , a merry fellow , once heard him play , and ...
... hour . ' But , in truth , he understood not the character in which music is written , and played on that instrument , as many of the vulgar do , merely by ear . Roubiliac , the sculptor , a merry fellow , once heard him play , and ...
Page 8
... hour to spend ; And , plac'd on high above the storm's career , Look downward where an hundred realms appear The farther I travel , I feel the pain of separation with stronger force . Those ties that bind me to my native country and you ...
... hour to spend ; And , plac'd on high above the storm's career , Look downward where an hundred realms appear The farther I travel , I feel the pain of separation with stronger force . Those ties that bind me to my native country and you ...
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... hour . Alike all ages : dames of ancient days Have led their children thro ' the mirthful maze ; And the gay grandsire , skill'd in gestic lore , Has frisk'd beneath the burthen of threescore . So blest a life these thoughtless realms ...
... hour . Alike all ages : dames of ancient days Have led their children thro ' the mirthful maze ; And the gay grandsire , skill'd in gestic lore , Has frisk'd beneath the burthen of threescore . So blest a life these thoughtless realms ...
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