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... less frequent . me . " 66 We talked of a lady's verses on Ireland . MISS REYNOLDS . " Have you seen them , Sir ? " JOHN- SON . No , Madam , I have seen a translation from Horace , by one of her daughters . She shewed it MISS REYNOLDS ...
... less frequent . me . " 66 We talked of a lady's verses on Ireland . MISS REYNOLDS . " Have you seen them , Sir ? " JOHN- SON . No , Madam , I have seen a translation from Horace , by one of her daughters . She shewed it MISS REYNOLDS ...
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... less pleasing to others.1 Wine gives a man nothing . It neither gives him knowledge nor wit ; it only ani- mates a man , and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed . It only puts in motion what has been ...
... less pleasing to others.1 Wine gives a man nothing . It neither gives him knowledge nor wit ; it only ani- mates a man , and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed . It only puts in motion what has been ...
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... less hurt to be sober , than it would do me to get drunk . " JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir ; and from what I have heard of him , one would not wish to sacrifice himself to such a man . If he must always have somebody to drink with him , he ...
... less hurt to be sober , than it would do me to get drunk . " JOHNSON . " Yes , Sir ; and from what I have heard of him , one would not wish to sacrifice himself to such a man . If he must always have somebody to drink with him , he ...
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... less admired since his death ; no authours ever had so much fame in their own life - time as Pope and Voltaire ; and Pope's poetry has been as much admired since his death as during his life ; it has only not been as much talked of ...
... less admired since his death ; no authours ever had so much fame in their own life - time as Pope and Voltaire ; and Pope's poetry has been as much admired since his death as during his life ; it has only not been as much talked of ...
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... less talked of transla- than Pope , and Homer is less talked of than Virgil ; Homer but they are not less admired . We must read what the world reads at the moment . It has been maintained that this superfetation , this teeming of the ...
... less talked of transla- than Pope , and Homer is less talked of than Virgil ; Homer but they are not less admired . We must read what the world reads at the moment . It has been maintained that this superfetation , this teeming of the ...
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