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Pàgina xix
... learning and his probity secured him respect . He was received in the best society of his native place . His first literary attempt , the translation of " Father Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia , " appeared during this period , and probably ...
... learning and his probity secured him respect . He was received in the best society of his native place . His first literary attempt , the translation of " Father Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia , " appeared during this period , and probably ...
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... learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour : but , unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than ...
... learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour : but , unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than ...
Pàgina 9
... learning instructs , and their subtilty surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his im- provement dearly bought , and though he sometimes admires , is seldom pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily ...
... learning instructs , and their subtilty surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his im- provement dearly bought , and though he sometimes admires , is seldom pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily ...
Pàgina 11
... learning and religion , And virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Tauki jesvol A Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have ...
... learning and religion , And virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Tauki jesvol A Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have ...
Pàgina 20
... learning ; and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his page , so that the reader is commonly surprised into some im- provement . But , considered as the verses of a lover , no man ...
... learning ; and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows in upon his page , so that the reader is commonly surprised into some im- provement . But , considered as the verses of a lover , no man ...
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