“Mauth” is Manx for dog, I am told.
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It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others.
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In the third volume of his essays.
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“I remember I went into the room where my father’s body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a-beating the coffin and calling ‘Papa,’ for I know not how, I had some slight idea that he was locked up there.” – STEELE, The Tatler, June 6, 1710.
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Longmans.
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I like to know what the author got.
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Salmon roe, I am sorry to say.
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“Why and Wherefore,” Aytoun.
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Fersitan legendum, “Help Thou.”
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I know, now, who Miriam was and who was the haunter of the Catacombs. But perhaps the people is as well without the knowledge of an old and “ower true tale” that shook a throne.
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Cannot the reader guess? I am afraid that I can!
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Edinburgh, 1685.