Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... pass his holidays at the vicarage at Kensington ; and , together with Oliver Goldsmith , whom at this period he also often visited , probably confirmed that strong literary turn in his youthful mind , which never forsook him in after ...
... pass his holidays at the vicarage at Kensington ; and , together with Oliver Goldsmith , whom at this period he also often visited , probably confirmed that strong literary turn in his youthful mind , which never forsook him in after ...
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... most classical purity . He was singularly felicitous in epigrammatic point , and a very eminent Greek scholar , though he did not value merely verbal criticism . To pass years in investigating REV . VICESIMUS KNOX , D. D. xi.
... most classical purity . He was singularly felicitous in epigrammatic point , and a very eminent Greek scholar , though he did not value merely verbal criticism . To pass years in investigating REV . VICESIMUS KNOX , D. D. xi.
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... pass years in investigating particles , he deemed an abuse of learning , justly subjecting it to the charge of pedantry . He was a great student of the harmony of language , invariably forming his sentences with a regard to rythmical ...
... pass years in investigating particles , he deemed an abuse of learning , justly subjecting it to the charge of pedantry . He was a great student of the harmony of language , invariably forming his sentences with a regard to rythmical ...
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... pass the rest of the day in medita- tures . tion and prayer . As I was here airing I had been often told , that the ... passing from one thought to another , it , but never heard that the musician Surely , said I , man is but a shadow ...
... pass the rest of the day in medita- tures . tion and prayer . As I was here airing I had been often told , that the ... passing from one thought to another , it , but never heard that the musician Surely , said I , man is but a shadow ...
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... pass- whither we were going , and what ed , yet it was not so violent as to was the cause of such clamour and allow no opportunities for dexterity confusion ; I was told that they or courage , since , though none could were launching ...
... pass- whither we were going , and what ed , yet it was not so violent as to was the cause of such clamour and allow no opportunities for dexterity confusion ; I was told that they or courage , since , though none could were launching ...
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Elegant Extracts, Or Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry (Classic Reprint) Vicesimus Knox No preview available - 2018 |
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