Johnsonian Miscellanies, Volume 2George Birkbeck Norman Hill Harper and Brothers, 1897 |
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... meaning . Dryden , after quoting Horace's pun on ' Mr. King ' ( Satires , i . 7. 35 ) , continues : But it may be puns were then in fashion , as they were wit in the sermons of the last age and in the Court of King Charles II ...
... meaning . Dryden , after quoting Horace's pun on ' Mr. King ' ( Satires , i . 7. 35 ) , continues : But it may be puns were then in fashion , as they were wit in the sermons of the last age and in the Court of King Charles II ...
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... mean to throw down the gauntlet , not by the hints and hesitations of oblique deprecia- tion , as he has on all occasions served me in his late book , but by a fair and direct attack . ' Hist . MSS . Com . , Thirteenth Report , App ...
... mean to throw down the gauntlet , not by the hints and hesitations of oblique deprecia- tion , as he has on all occasions served me in his late book , but by a fair and direct attack . ' Hist . MSS . Com . , Thirteenth Report , App ...
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... mean time , such are my projects and sanguine expectations , that you know I purchased an estate which was given long ago to a younger son of our family , and came to be sold last autumn , and paid for it 2500l . - 1500l . of which I ...
... mean time , such are my projects and sanguine expectations , that you know I purchased an estate which was given long ago to a younger son of our family , and came to be sold last autumn , and paid for it 2500l . - 1500l . of which I ...
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... Means for 1791 is entered on May 19 , ' Profit in 50,000 lottery - tickets at £ 16 . 2. 6- £ 306,250 . ' Annual Register , 1791 , Appendix , i . 116 . The difference between £ 16 . 2. 6 and £ 16 . 8 was , I suppose , the dealer's profit ...
... Means for 1791 is entered on May 19 , ' Profit in 50,000 lottery - tickets at £ 16 . 2. 6- £ 306,250 . ' Annual Register , 1791 , Appendix , i . 116 . The difference between £ 16 . 2. 6 and £ 16 . 8 was , I suppose , the dealer's profit ...
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... mean to ask Sir Joshua if he will join ; for indeed I should be vexed to sell my Magnum Opus for a great deal less than its intrinsic value . I meant to publish on Shrove Tuesday ; but if I can get out within the month of March I shall ...
... mean to ask Sir Joshua if he will join ; for indeed I should be vexed to sell my Magnum Opus for a great deal less than its intrinsic value . I meant to publish on Shrove Tuesday ; but if I can get out within the month of March I shall ...
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