Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Tom 1Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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... of any I have undertaken since you first condescended to laugh with , SIR , Your most obedient , most obliged , And most humble Servant , COLLEY CIBBER . Nov. 6 , 1739 . AN APOLOGY FOR THE LIFE OF MR COLLEY CIBBER , DEDICATION . 5.
... of any I have undertaken since you first condescended to laugh with , SIR , Your most obedient , most obliged , And most humble Servant , COLLEY CIBBER . Nov. 6 , 1739 . AN APOLOGY FOR THE LIFE OF MR COLLEY CIBBER , DEDICATION . 5.
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... obliged to give you my own , and not a good picture , to show as well the weakness as the strength of my understanding . It is not on what I write , but on my reader's curiosity , I rely to be read through : at worst , though the ...
... obliged to give you my own , and not a good picture , to show as well the weakness as the strength of my understanding . It is not on what I write , but on my reader's curiosity , I rely to be read through : at worst , though the ...
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... obliged his patron to take some gentle notice of it ; but as his patron knew the patient was squeamish , he was induced to sweeten the medi- cine to his taste , and therefore with a smile of good- humour told him , that if to the many ...
... obliged his patron to take some gentle notice of it ; but as his patron knew the patient was squeamish , he was induced to sweeten the medi- cine to his taste , and therefore with a smile of good- humour told him , that if to the many ...
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... obliged to defend the weak side of the question , ) his last resource is to join in the laugh , till he has got himself off by an ironical applause of your superiority . If I were capable of envy , what I have observed of this gentleman ...
... obliged to defend the weak side of the question , ) his last resource is to join in the laugh , till he has got himself off by an ironical applause of your superiority . If I were capable of envy , what I have observed of this gentleman ...
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... . If Socrates could take pleasure in playing at even or odd with his children , or Agesilaus divert himself in riding the hobby horse with them , am I obliged to be as eminent 1 as either of them , before I am as frolicsome 18 THE LIFE OF.
... . If Socrates could take pleasure in playing at even or odd with his children , or Agesilaus divert himself in riding the hobby horse with them , am I obliged to be as eminent 1 as either of them , before I am as frolicsome 18 THE LIFE OF.
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