The Monuments and Genii of St. Paul's Cathedral, and of Westminster Abbey: With Historical Sketches and Descriptions of Both Churches: Forming an Entirely New and Correct Biography of All that is Interesting in the Lives and Achievements of the Most Illustrious Characters of the United Kingdoms, المجلد 2J. Williams, 1839 |
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... station than I have , but I defy them all to take more sincere and more unin- terrupted pains for your favour , or to be more truly sensible of it , than is your most obedient grateful servant . ” Garrick spent the remainder of his life ...
... station than I have , but I defy them all to take more sincere and more unin- terrupted pains for your favour , or to be more truly sensible of it , than is your most obedient grateful servant . ” Garrick spent the remainder of his life ...
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... stations , or professions ; and above all that portion of their lives by which they mainly earned tàir elevation . Now the poli- tical exertions of Charles , Earl of Halifax , had nothing in them to raise him above the level of most ...
... stations , or professions ; and above all that portion of their lives by which they mainly earned tàir elevation . Now the poli- tical exertions of Charles , Earl of Halifax , had nothing in them to raise him above the level of most ...
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... station in the orchestra . Ere long , however , the principal pianist , a dissipated man , absconded from his creditors , and Handel put in a claim for the appointment upon the presumption of superior ability . A trial of skill be ...
... station in the orchestra . Ere long , however , the principal pianist , a dissipated man , absconded from his creditors , and Handel put in a claim for the appointment upon the presumption of superior ability . A trial of skill be ...
الصفحة 564
... station he continued eminently happy during a term of nine years , and perhaps at no other period was music so nobly cultivated in England . The jealousy of actors , composers , and even authors , is so proverbial , that it cannot ...
... station he continued eminently happy during a term of nine years , and perhaps at no other period was music so nobly cultivated in England . The jealousy of actors , composers , and even authors , is so proverbial , that it cannot ...
الصفحة 579
... stations of rank , and attained a creditable knowledge of oriental literature , sufficed for the acquisition of a fortune , which so happily equalled the extent of his hopes that he re- turned to spend a life of ease in England . Well ...
... stations of rank , and attained a creditable knowledge of oriental literature , sufficed for the acquisition of a fortune , which so happily equalled the extent of his hopes that he re- turned to spend a life of ease in England . Well ...
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