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... languages : though I was somewhat mortified that I had it not so much to myself , as I should have thought . " 66 Talking of the minuteness with which people will record the sayings of eminent persons , a story was told , that when Pope ...
... languages : though I was somewhat mortified that I had it not so much to myself , as I should have thought . " 66 Talking of the minuteness with which people will record the sayings of eminent persons , a story was told , that when Pope ...
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... language : when I read it myself , I was more sensible of its pathetick effect ; ' and then he paid it a compliment which many will think very ex- travagant . Sir , ( said he , ) if Otway had written this play , no other of his pieces ...
... language : when I read it myself , I was more sensible of its pathetick effect ; ' and then he paid it a compliment which many will think very ex- travagant . Sir , ( said he , ) if Otway had written this play , no other of his pieces ...
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... language so near to our own ; had it been one of the languages entirely different , he might have been very soon satisfied . " " Mr. Langton and he having gone to see a Free- mason's funeral procession , when they were at Ro- chester ...
... language so near to our own ; had it been one of the languages entirely different , he might have been very soon satisfied . " " Mr. Langton and he having gone to see a Free- mason's funeral procession , when they were at Ro- chester ...
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... language they could invent , generally , however , with as much satirical humour as they were capable of producing . Addison gives a specimen of this ri- baldry , in Number 383 of The Spectator , ' when Sir Roger de Coverly and he are ...
... language they could invent , generally , however , with as much satirical humour as they were capable of producing . Addison gives a specimen of this ri- baldry , in Number 383 of The Spectator , ' when Sir Roger de Coverly and he are ...
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... the great Master of our language will stop that curtailing innovation , by which we see critic , public , & c . frequently written instead of critick , publick , & c . only told him in general that it was highly in 32 THE LIFE OF.
... the great Master of our language will stop that curtailing innovation , by which we see critic , public , & c . frequently written instead of critick , publick , & c . only told him in general that it was highly in 32 THE LIFE OF.
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