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Pàgina vii
... delight : Sir Walter Scott affirmed that it displayed qualifications which have seldom been concentrated to the same degree in any literary undertaking ; and Lord Macaulay pronounces the narrative to be as " entertaining as any fairy ...
... delight : Sir Walter Scott affirmed that it displayed qualifications which have seldom been concentrated to the same degree in any literary undertaking ; and Lord Macaulay pronounces the narrative to be as " entertaining as any fairy ...
Pàgina xv
... perfect silence , and Dies Oct. 29 , 1745 , 367 - His immense services to Ireland , 367 - His delight in revolving ideas from which other minds shrink in disgust , 4 WILLIAM BROOME , 1689-1745 p . 371 Born in 370 . CONTENTS . XV.
... perfect silence , and Dies Oct. 29 , 1745 , 367 - His immense services to Ireland , 367 - His delight in revolving ideas from which other minds shrink in disgust , 4 WILLIAM BROOME , 1689-1745 p . 371 Born in 370 . CONTENTS . XV.
Pàgina xvi
... delight in artifice , 414 - His frugality , 414 - His admiration of the Great , 415 - His Letters , 416 - His intellectual character , 419 - His acquired knowledge , 420 - His genius , 421 - His Epitaphs , 433 . CHRISTOPHER PITT , 1699 ...
... delight in artifice , 414 - His frugality , 414 - His admiration of the Great , 415 - His Letters , 416 - His intellectual character , 419 - His acquired knowledge , 420 - His genius , 421 - His Epitaphs , 433 . CHRISTOPHER PITT , 1699 ...
Pàgina 1
... delight to read , till by feeling the charms of verse , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , sometimes remembered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that par- ticular designation of ...
... delight to read , till by feeling the charms of verse , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , sometimes remembered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that par- ticular designation of ...
Pàgina 7
... delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . ' * So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shown ! But actions are visible , though ...
... delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . ' * So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shown ! But actions are visible , though ...
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