Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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... manner , when he made him haughtily call to Walker for his hat , gave a copy as little like the character of Bentley , as his translation is like the original of Homer . That Doctor Walker , vice - master of Trinity - Col- lege , was ...
... manner , when he made him haughtily call to Walker for his hat , gave a copy as little like the character of Bentley , as his translation is like the original of Homer . That Doctor Walker , vice - master of Trinity - Col- lege , was ...
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... manner , that did no less credit to his delicacy than to his liberality . A morose and over - bearing man will find himself a solitary being in creation ; Doctor Bentley on the contrary had many intimates ; judicious in forming his ...
... manner , that did no less credit to his delicacy than to his liberality . A morose and over - bearing man will find himself a solitary being in creation ; Doctor Bentley on the contrary had many intimates ; judicious in forming his ...
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... manner possible by one of the best women living ; for such , by the testimony of all who knew her , was Mrs. Bentley ... manners and habits , which , though in some degree tinctured with hereditary reserve and the primitive cast of ...
... manner possible by one of the best women living ; for such , by the testimony of all who knew her , was Mrs. Bentley ... manners and habits , which , though in some degree tinctured with hereditary reserve and the primitive cast of ...
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... manner , when perhaps none were present , who could taste the spirit and amenity of her humour . There hardly passed a day , in which she failed to devote a portion of her time to the reading RICHARD CUMBERLAND . 25 character of her ...
... manner , when perhaps none were present , who could taste the spirit and amenity of her humour . There hardly passed a day , in which she failed to devote a portion of her time to the reading RICHARD CUMBERLAND . 25 character of her ...
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... manner with un- reserved commendation , and persisted in reci- ting it to his intimates , when I had gained ex- perience enough to wish he had consigned it to oblivion . Though I have no copy of this childish per- formance , I bear in ...
... manner with un- reserved commendation , and persisted in reci- ting it to his intimates , when I had gained ex- perience enough to wish he had consigned it to oblivion . Though I have no copy of this childish per- formance , I bear in ...
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