The Laureate of Pessimism: A Sketch of the Life and Character of James Thomson ("B.V.") |
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... Leicester , and made there a number of good and generous friends , was invited to write an Address " in verse to be recited at the opening of the New Hall of the Leicester Secular Society , and also to be present on the occasion of its ...
... Leicester , and made there a number of good and generous friends , was invited to write an Address " in verse to be recited at the opening of the New Hall of the Leicester Secular Society , and also to be present on the occasion of its ...
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... friends . On June 4 in the same year , Thomson again went to Leicester , having been invited thither by a number of the friends whose hospitality he had enjoyed on his previous visit . The following extract from his diary sums up the ...
... friends . On June 4 in the same year , Thomson again went to Leicester , having been invited thither by a number of the friends whose hospitality he had enjoyed on his previous visit . The following extract from his diary sums up the ...
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... Leicester friends : - " We are here four miles from Leicester , with rail- way station a few minutes off , in a pleasant villa , surrounded by shrubbery , lawn , meadow , and kitchen garden . Host and hostess ( sister ) are kindness ...
... Leicester friends : - " We are here four miles from Leicester , with rail- way station a few minutes off , in a pleasant villa , surrounded by shrubbery , lawn , meadow , and kitchen garden . Host and hostess ( sister ) are kindness ...
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... Leicester friends . This ended in one of his terrible and uncontrollable fits of alcoholic insanity . When the fit had exhausted itself and its victim , leaving him , as it always did , in a state of utter collapse and nervelessness ...
... Leicester friends . This ended in one of his terrible and uncontrollable fits of alcoholic insanity . When the fit had exhausted itself and its victim , leaving him , as it always did , in a state of utter collapse and nervelessness ...
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