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... given very general satisfaction ; and those who have found most fault with a passage here and there , have agreed that they could not help going through , and being entertained with the whole . I wish , indeed , some few gross ...
... given very general satisfaction ; and those who have found most fault with a passage here and there , have agreed that they could not help going through , and being entertained with the whole . I wish , indeed , some few gross ...
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... given , ' that every man's life may be best written by himself ; had he employed in the preservation of his own history , that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons , the world ...
... given , ' that every man's life may be best written by himself ; had he employed in the preservation of his own history , that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons , the world ...
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... given upon a former occasion , 2 have been received with so much approbation , that I have good grounds for supposing that the world will not be indifferent to more ample communications of a similar nature . That the conversation of a ...
... given upon a former occasion , 2 have been received with so much approbation , that I have good grounds for supposing that the world will not be indifferent to more ample communications of a similar nature . That the conversation of a ...
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... given several proofs 1 He is said to be the original of the parson in Hogarth's Modern Midnight Conversation . See also Lives of the Poets , ( " Fenton . " ) 2 As was likewise the Bishop of Dromore many years after- ward . B. of his ...
... given several proofs 1 He is said to be the original of the parson in Hogarth's Modern Midnight Conversation . See also Lives of the Poets , ( " Fenton . " ) 2 As was likewise the Bishop of Dromore many years after- ward . B. of his ...
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... given such a specimen of his poetical powers , he was asked by Mr. Jorden to translate Pope's Messiah into Latin verse , as a Christmas exercise . He performed it 1 Oxford , 20th March , 1776. B. 2 It ought to be remembered , that Dr ...
... given such a specimen of his poetical powers , he was asked by Mr. Jorden to translate Pope's Messiah into Latin verse , as a Christmas exercise . He performed it 1 Oxford , 20th March , 1776. B. 2 It ought to be remembered , that Dr ...
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