Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and MenJ. Murray, 1820 - 302 էջ |
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... it is , I think verily it cost me more pains in the correcting than the writing of it would have done.-Mr. Pope . What Paterculus says of Homer's not being blind , might be said by him only for B the turn of it . This book is a flimsy ...
... it is , I think verily it cost me more pains in the correcting than the writing of it would have done.-Mr. Pope . What Paterculus says of Homer's not being blind , might be said by him only for B the turn of it . This book is a flimsy ...
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Joseph Spence Edmond Malone. the turn of it . This book is a flimsy thing , and yet nine in ten that read it , will be pleased with it . — The same . After my reading the Persian Tales ( and I had been reading Dryden's Fables just before ...
Joseph Spence Edmond Malone. the turn of it . This book is a flimsy thing , and yet nine in ten that read it , will be pleased with it . — The same . After my reading the Persian Tales ( and I had been reading Dryden's Fables just before ...
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... with the Epistles on Government or that on Education . - The same . [ He spoke a little warmer as to the use of it ; but more coldly as to the exe- cution . ] I have omitted a character ( though I thought it one of the best I had ever ...
... with the Epistles on Government or that on Education . - The same . [ He spoke a little warmer as to the use of it ; but more coldly as to the exe- cution . ] I have omitted a character ( though I thought it one of the best I had ever ...
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... Soon after it was generally known that Mr. Tickell was publishing the first book of the Iliad , I met Dr. Young in the street , and upon our falling into that subject , the Doctor expressed a great deal of surprise at Tickell's having had ...
... Soon after it was generally known that Mr. Tickell was publishing the first book of the Iliad , I met Dr. Young in the street , and upon our falling into that subject , the Doctor expressed a great deal of surprise at Tickell's having had ...
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Joseph Spence Edmond Malone. could not have been busied in so long a work there without his knowing something of the matter , and that he never heard a single word of it till on this occasion . This surprise of Dr. Young , together with ...
Joseph Spence Edmond Malone. could not have been busied in so long a work there without his knowing something of the matter , and that he never heard a single word of it till on this occasion . This surprise of Dr. Young , together with ...
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