A Collection of One Hundred Pieces of English Literature: Fifty in Prose and Fifty in Verse : Accompanied with a Variety of Notes for the Use of the Inhabitants of the Netherlands, Volume 1Nayler en Company, 1830 |
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... things you have said to me , and the very flattering things you have said of me during the last two Winter Seasons lead me to suppose , that you will not be offended at my Dedicating these sheets to One who has so disinterestedly laid ...
... things you have said to me , and the very flattering things you have said of me during the last two Winter Seasons lead me to suppose , that you will not be offended at my Dedicating these sheets to One who has so disinterestedly laid ...
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... things . Reading maketh a full man ; Conference a ready man ; and Writing an exact man : and , therefore , if a man ... thing to prove and illustrate another , let him - - study the Lawyer's - cases ; so , every defect 14.
... things . Reading maketh a full man ; Conference a ready man ; and Writing an exact man : and , therefore , if a man ... thing to prove and illustrate another , let him - - study the Lawyer's - cases ; so , every defect 14.
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... things shall be added unto you . Saint Philip Neri , as old readings say , Mat . VI . 33 . Met a young Stranger in Rome's streets one day ; And being ever courteously inclined To give young folks a sober turn of mind , He fell into ...
... things shall be added unto you . Saint Philip Neri , as old readings say , Mat . VI . 33 . Met a young Stranger in Rome's streets one day ; And being ever courteously inclined To give young folks a sober turn of mind , He fell into ...
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... thing - Drink deep , or taste not the Pierean spring ; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain , And drinking largely sobers us again . & c . A perfect judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its Author writ ...
... thing - Drink deep , or taste not the Pierean spring ; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain , And drinking largely sobers us again . & c . A perfect judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its Author writ ...
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... thing , they call a Thought , A needless Alexandrine ends the song , Which , like a wounded snake , drags its slow length along . Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes , and know What's roundly smoothe , or languishingly slow ; And ...
... thing , they call a Thought , A needless Alexandrine ends the song , Which , like a wounded snake , drags its slow length along . Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes , and know What's roundly smoothe , or languishingly slow ; And ...
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