Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2J. Murray, 1854 - 444 pàgines |
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... once a book of entertainment and of science . This I was told by [ Philip ] Miller , the great gardener and botanist , whose expression was , that there were many books written on the same subject in prose , which do not contain so much ...
... once a book of entertainment and of science . This I was told by [ Philip ] Miller , the great gardener and botanist , whose expression was , that there were many books written on the same subject in prose , which do not contain so much ...
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... once than to take by pieces . I shall subjoin such little memorials as accident has enabled me to collect . A CHARACTER OF THE AUTHOR . " MR . EDMUND SMITH was the only son of an eminent merchant , one Mr. Neale , by a daughter of the ...
... once than to take by pieces . I shall subjoin such little memorials as accident has enabled me to collect . A CHARACTER OF THE AUTHOR . " MR . EDMUND SMITH was the only son of an eminent merchant , one Mr. Neale , by a daughter of the ...
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... once commended and reproved him by the name of the handsome sloven . An eager but generous and noble emula- tion grew up with him ; which ( as it were a rational sort of instinct ) pushed him upon striving to excel in every art and ...
... once commended and reproved him by the name of the handsome sloven . An eager but generous and noble emula- tion grew up with him ; which ( as it were a rational sort of instinct ) pushed him upon striving to excel in every art and ...
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... once adorn and defend the Christian hero , and equip him for the combat . " Mr. Smith had a long and perfect intimacy with all the Greek and Latin classics , with whom he had carefully compared whatever was worth perusing in the French ...
... once adorn and defend the Christian hero , and equip him for the combat . " Mr. Smith had a long and perfect intimacy with all the Greek and Latin classics , with whom he had carefully compared whatever was worth perusing in the French ...
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... once heard a single line too gross to be repeated . But he was still a genius and a scholar , and Oxford was un- willing to lose him : he was endured , with all his pranks and his vices , two years longer ; but on Dec. 20 , 1705 , at ...
... once heard a single line too gross to be repeated . But he was still a genius and a scholar , and Oxford was un- willing to lose him : he was endured , with all his pranks and his vices , two years longer ; but on Dec. 20 , 1705 , at ...
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