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... merit . " " Callimachus is a writer of little excellence . The chief thing to be learned from him is his account of Rites and Mythology ; which , though desirable to be known for the sake of understanding other parts of ancient authours ...
... merit . " " Callimachus is a writer of little excellence . The chief thing to be learned from him is his account of Rites and Mythology ; which , though desirable to be known for the sake of understanding other parts of ancient authours ...
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... through life with more ob- servation than Reynolds . " Secretary to the British Herring Fishery , remarkable for an extraordinary number of occasional verses , not of eminent merit . 1780 . Ætat . 71 . 2 " He repeated DR . JOHNSON . 5.
... through life with more ob- servation than Reynolds . " Secretary to the British Herring Fishery , remarkable for an extraordinary number of occasional verses , not of eminent merit . 1780 . Ætat . 71 . 2 " He repeated DR . JOHNSON . 5.
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... merit . " 6 6 " His friend Garrick was so busy in conducting the drama , that they could not have so much in- tercourse as Mr. Garrick used to profess an anxious wish that there should be . " There might , indeed , be something in the ...
... merit . " 6 6 " His friend Garrick was so busy in conducting the drama , that they could not have so much in- tercourse as Mr. Garrick used to profess an anxious wish that there should be . " There might , indeed , be something in the ...
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... merit of Otway . " 4 " Snatches of reading ( said he ) will not make a Bentley or a Clarke . They are , however , in a certain degree advantageous . I would put a child into a library ( where no unfit books are ) and let him read at his ...
... merit of Otway . " 4 " Snatches of reading ( said he ) will not make a Bentley or a Clarke . They are , however , in a certain degree advantageous . I would put a child into a library ( where no unfit books are ) and let him read at his ...
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... merits of the English Poets : upon the niceties of their characters , and the events of their progress through the world which they con- tributed to illuminate . His mind was so full of that kind of information , and it was so well ...
... merits of the English Poets : upon the niceties of their characters , and the events of their progress through the world which they con- tributed to illuminate . His mind was so full of that kind of information , and it was so well ...
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