“The” Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Robert AndersonArch, 1795 |
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... Dean of St. Patrick's in Dublin , the beft preferment the ministry would venture to give him . " That miniftry , " fays Dr. Johnson , was , in a great degree , fup- ported by the clergy , who were not yet reconciled to the author of the ...
... Dean of St. Patrick's in Dublin , the beft preferment the ministry would venture to give him . " That miniftry , " fays Dr. Johnson , was , in a great degree , fup- ported by the clergy , who were not yet reconciled to the author of the ...
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... Dean . His first design feems to have been to break off the connection in the politeft manner poffible . To foften the harsh- nefs of a refufal of her hand , the greatest of mortifications to a woman , young , beautiful , and pof ...
... Dean . His first design feems to have been to break off the connection in the politeft manner poffible . To foften the harsh- nefs of a refufal of her hand , the greatest of mortifications to a woman , young , beautiful , and pof ...
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... Dean , given to him by way of pre - eminence , as it were by common confent ; and when the Dean was mentioned , it always carried with it the idea of the firft and greatest man in the kingdom . In a variety of publications , he laid ...
... Dean , given to him by way of pre - eminence , as it were by common confent ; and when the Dean was mentioned , it always carried with it the idea of the firft and greatest man in the kingdom . In a variety of publications , he laid ...
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... Dean kept company with many of the fair fex , but they were rather his amusement than his admiration ; he trifled away many hours in their converfation , he filled many pages in their praise , and , by the powers of his head , he gained ...
... Dean kept company with many of the fair fex , but they were rather his amusement than his admiration ; he trifled away many hours in their converfation , he filled many pages in their praise , and , by the powers of his head , he gained ...
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... Dean he was very attentive . He managed the revenues of his church with exact economy ; and it is faid by Delany , that more money was , under his direction , laid out in repairs than had ever been in the fame time fince its first ...
... Dean he was very attentive . He managed the revenues of his church with exact economy ; and it is faid by Delany , that more money was , under his direction , laid out in repairs than had ever been in the fame time fince its first ...
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