The British Essayists: The AdventurerLittle, Brown, 1866 |
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... surely , whether the invectives with which they attack each other be true or false , they are two much degraded from the dignity of pastoral innocence ; and instead of rejoicing that they are both victorious , I should not have grieved ...
... surely , whether the invectives with which they attack each other be true or false , they are two much degraded from the dignity of pastoral innocence ; and instead of rejoicing that they are both victorious , I should not have grieved ...
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... surely , it is not without some reproach to his inventive power , that of ten pastorals Virgil has written two upon the same plan . One of the shepherds now gains an acknowledged victory , but without any apparent superiority ; and the ...
... surely , it is not without some reproach to his inventive power , that of ten pastorals Virgil has written two upon the same plan . One of the shepherds now gains an acknowledged victory , but without any apparent superiority ; and the ...
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... that bounty appears to be less doubt- ful and interrupted ? Every man , surely , would blush to admit these suppositions ; let every man , therefore , deny them by his life . He who brings imagination under the do- 38 NO . 96 . ADVENTURER .
... that bounty appears to be less doubt- ful and interrupted ? Every man , surely , would blush to admit these suppositions ; let every man , therefore , deny them by his life . He who brings imagination under the do- 38 NO . 96 . ADVENTURER .
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... surely , the nature of cannon was not much ex- plained to Adam , who neither knew nor wanted the use of iron tools , by telling him , that they resemble the hollow bodies of oak or fir , With branches lopp'd , in wood or mountain fell'd ...
... surely , the nature of cannon was not much ex- plained to Adam , who neither knew nor wanted the use of iron tools , by telling him , that they resemble the hollow bodies of oak or fir , With branches lopp'd , in wood or mountain fell'd ...
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... surely , will be deterred by this consideration from the attempt ; for who but an infant , or an idiot , would give up his parental inheritance for a feather , or renounce the acclamations of a triumph for the tinkling of a rattle ? No ...
... surely , will be deterred by this consideration from the attempt ; for who but an infant , or an idiot , would give up his parental inheritance for a feather , or renounce the acclamations of a triumph for the tinkling of a rattle ? No ...
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Common terms and phrases
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