Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and MenJ. Murray, 1820 - 302 էջ |
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... four first Epistles are the scale for all the rest of the work , and were much the most difficult part of it . I do not know whether I shall go on with the Epistles on Government or that on Education . - The same . [ He spoke a little ...
... four first Epistles are the scale for all the rest of the work , and were much the most difficult part of it . I do not know whether I shall go on with the Epistles on Government or that on Education . - The same . [ He spoke a little ...
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... four days . - The same . I began translating the Iliad in my twenty - fifth year , and it took up that and five more to finish it . Mr. Dryden , though they always talk of his being hurried so much , was as long in translating Virgil ...
... four days . - The same . I began translating the Iliad in my twenty - fifth year , and it took up that and five more to finish it . Mr. Dryden , though they always talk of his being hurried so much , was as long in translating Virgil ...
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... loved very much to read and talk of the Classics in his retirement . We used to take a ride out together three or four days in the week , and at last c 2 OF MEN AND BOOKS . 19 guages by hunting after the stories in the ...
... loved very much to read and talk of the Classics in his retirement . We used to take a ride out together three or four days in the week , and at last c 2 OF MEN AND BOOKS . 19 guages by hunting after the stories in the ...
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Joseph Spence Edmond Malone. or four days in the week , and at last almost every day . Another of my earliest ac- quaintance was Walsh : I was with him at his seat in Worcestershire for a good part of the summer of 1705 ; and showed him ...
Joseph Spence Edmond Malone. or four days in the week , and at last almost every day . Another of my earliest ac- quaintance was Walsh : I was with him at his seat in Worcestershire for a good part of the summer of 1705 ; and showed him ...
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... four books towards it , of about a thousand verses each , and had the copy by me till I burnt it by the advice of the Bishop of Rochester a little before he went abroad . The same . I endeavoured ( says he smiling ) in this poem to ...
... four books towards it , of about a thousand verses each , and had the copy by me till I burnt it by the advice of the Bishop of Rochester a little before he went abroad . The same . I endeavoured ( says he smiling ) in this poem to ...
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