LivesA. Miller, 1800 |
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... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things , and rejecting others ...
... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things , and rejecting others ...
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... tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for B 2 the In the first edition of this Life , Dr ...
... tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for B 2 the In the first edition of this Life , Dr ...
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... tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argument above all " the rest ) Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . " " This expression from a secretary of the present time ,, would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most ...
... tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argument above all " the rest ) Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . " " This expression from a secretary of the present time ,, would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most ...
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... tell , cannot however now be known . I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and ...
... tell , cannot however now be known . I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and ...
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... telling the history of Lucifer , who was , he says , Once general of a gilded host of sprites , Like Hesper leading forth the spangled nights ; But down like lightning , which him struck , he came , And roar'd at his first plunge into ...
... telling the history of Lucifer , who was , he says , Once general of a gilded host of sprites , Like Hesper leading forth the spangled nights ; But down like lightning , which him struck , he came , And roar'd at his first plunge into ...
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