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... Puff ; though such license and such au thority have frequently extended letters pa- tent to many of my beloved relatives . An hereditary love of egotism , added to the de- sire of gratifying the curiosity of my readers , ( should I be ...
... Puff ; though such license and such au thority have frequently extended letters pa- tent to many of my beloved relatives . An hereditary love of egotism , added to the de- sire of gratifying the curiosity of my readers , ( should I be ...
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... puff for myself . I found numerous relations al- ready there , who in their different occupa tions were emulous to surpass each other . But he who has played the most successful part , and from whom I derive the greatest family ...
... puff for myself . I found numerous relations al- ready there , who in their different occupa tions were emulous to surpass each other . But he who has played the most successful part , and from whom I derive the greatest family ...
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... Puff the organ- blower , Puff the singer , Puff the flute - player , and Puff the blacksmith . The latter , though . he has been many times detected in the very act of forging , always has had art enough . to escape Newgate honours ...
... Puff the organ- blower , Puff the singer , Puff the flute - player , and Puff the blacksmith . The latter , though . he has been many times detected in the very act of forging , always has had art enough . to escape Newgate honours ...
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... Puff the perfumer , Puff the pastry - cook , and Puff advocate . These are all regular descendants from the first Puff , and bear the proud stamp of their legitimacy in their air , their manner , and their conver- sation . I must here ...
... Puff the perfumer , Puff the pastry - cook , and Puff advocate . These are all regular descendants from the first Puff , and bear the proud stamp of their legitimacy in their air , their manner , and their conver- sation . I must here ...
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... Puff the peer , Puff the ' prentice , Puff the traveller , Puff the pedestrian , with a long list of collateral Puffs , are to be met every where . But with tears I mention the banish- ment of one who was the darling of the old and the ...
... Puff the peer , Puff the ' prentice , Puff the traveller , Puff the pedestrian , with a long list of collateral Puffs , are to be met every where . But with tears I mention the banish- ment of one who was the darling of the old and the ...
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Page 94 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 96 - DAY set on Norham's castled steep. And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep. And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loop-hole grates where captives weep. The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
Page 96 - Whose ponderous grate and massy bar Had oft roll'd back the tide of war, But never closed the iron door Against the desolate and poor. The Duchess...
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Page 97 - Chichelrer, by public fublcription, to the memory of Collins the poet, who was a native of that city, and died in a houfe adjoining to the cloifters. He is reprefented as juft recovered from a wild fit of...