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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 421
by Samuel Johnson - 1825
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The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1864 - 442 pages
...made them equal. She always remembered her own rank, and thought k August2. ' Spencc. 124 ADDISON. herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony...left behind him no encouragement for ambitious love. The year after (1717) he rose to his highest elevation, being made Secretary of State. For this employment...
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Thackeray's Lectures: The English Humorists. The Four Georges

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 476 pages
...be credited, made no addition to his happiness ; it neither found them, nor made them, equal Rowe's ballad of ' The Despairing Shepherd' is said to have...either before or after marriage, upon this memorable pair."—DR. JOHNSON. " l received the news of Mr. Addison's being declared Secretary of State with...
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The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 334 pages
...made no addition to his happiness; it neither found them, nor wade them, equal Rowe's ballad of SThe Despairing Shepherd' is said to have been written,...before or after marriage, upon this memorable pair." — DR. JOHNSON. But it is not for his reputation as the great author of "Cato" and the "Campaign,"...
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The works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume 19

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...be credited, made no addition to his happiness; it neither found them, nor made them, equal Rowe's ballad of ' The Despairing Shepherd' is said to have...either before or after marriage, upon this memorable pair."—DR. JOHNSON. ["I received 202 ENGLISH HUMOURISTS. But it is not for his reputation as the...
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 pages
...be credited, made no addition to his happiness ; it neither found them, nor made them, equal Rowe's ballad of ' The Despairing Shepherd' is said to have...either before or after marriage, upon this memorable pair."—DR. JOHNSON. "I received the news of Mr. Addison's being declared Secretary of State with...
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A Manual of English Literature: A Text Book for Schools and Colleges

John Seely Hart - 1872 - 654 pages
...addition to his happiness; it neither found nor made them equal. She always remembered her own rank, and thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her son." Addison died full of honors, and in great serenity of mind, when just entering his forty-eighth year....
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A Manual of English Literature: A Text Book for Schools and Colleges

John Seely Hart - 1872 - 650 pages
...addition to his happiness; it neither found nor made them equal. She always remembered lier own rank, and thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of lier коп." Add i »on died full of honors, and in great serenity of mind, when just entering his...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 135

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1873 - 600 pages
...addition to his happiness. It neither found nor made them equal. She always remembered her own rank, and thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her son.' That his advances were ' certainly timorous ' is mere matter of inference. So little is known of the...
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The Living Age, Volume 119

1873 - 892 pages
...addition to his happiness. It neither found nor made them equal. She always remembered her own rank, and thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her son. That his advances were " certainly timorous " is mere matter of inference. So little is known of the...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 19; Volume 82

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...addition to his happiness. It neither found nor made them equal. She always remembered her own rank, and thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her son.' That his advances were ‘ certainly timorous' is mere matter of inference. So littie is known of the...
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