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The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics (1809)

Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834 · London : Published by R. Ackermann ... Sherwood & Co. and Walker & Co. ... and Simpkin & Marshall ... · leaf 240

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re not so proud as they oughtto be of the celebrity of certain nameswhich are in the mouth of every one.How few Londoners know, for in- stance, where Shakspeares Globewas situated; where Chaucer lived;what tavern was frequented by thegeniuses of the age of Elizabeth;wheie the neat house stands in… … CALAIS AND MONTREUIL. 189 of English can hurry to Paris, andpublish their travels, printed on thefinest paper, without devoting a sin-gle page to their witty and philoso-phic precursor, the admirable Sterne.W bile the authoress of CanterburyTales, as soon as she only approach-ed the Kentish coast,…

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