The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 3Methuen, 1896 |
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... reader's expectation , that , when at the usual time he claimed the Bachelorship of Arts , he 1 Spence's Anecdotes , vol . ii . p . 273 . VOL . III . A was found by the examiners too conspicuously deficient for regular SWIFT.
... reader's expectation , that , when at the usual time he claimed the Bachelorship of Arts , he 1 Spence's Anecdotes , vol . ii . p . 273 . VOL . III . A was found by the examiners too conspicuously deficient for regular SWIFT.
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... readers ? It is the wise choice of the subject that alone adorns and distinguishes the writer . For had a hundred such ... reader's notice . In the year following he wrote a Project for the Advancement of Religion , addressed to Lady ...
... readers ? It is the wise choice of the subject that alone adorns and distinguishes the writer . For had a hundred such ... reader's notice . In the year following he wrote a Project for the Advancement of Religion , addressed to Lady ...
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... readers . To its propagation certainly no agency of power or influence was wanting . It furnished arguments for conversation , speeches for debate , and materials for parliamentary resolutions . Yet , surely , whoever surveys this ...
... readers . To its propagation certainly no agency of power or influence was wanting . It furnished arguments for conversation , speeches for debate , and materials for parliamentary resolutions . Yet , surely , whoever surveys this ...
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... reader , finding frequent mention of names which he has been used to consider as important , goes on in hope of information ; and , as there is nothing to fatigue attention , if he is disappointed he can hardly complain . It is easy to ...
... reader , finding frequent mention of names which he has been used to consider as important , goes on in hope of information ; and , as there is nothing to fatigue attention , if he is disappointed he can hardly complain . It is easy to ...
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... reader with a mingled emotion of merriment and amazement . It was received with such avidity , that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low , the learned and ...
... reader with a mingled emotion of merriment and amazement . It was received with such avidity , that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low , the learned and ...
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