Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and MenJ. Murray, 1820 - 302 էջ |
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... learned for a few months under a fourth priest . This was all the teaching I ever had ; and , God knows , it extended a very little way . " - Mr. Pope . my When I had done with my priests , I took to reading by myself , for which I had ...
... learned for a few months under a fourth priest . This was all the teaching I ever had ; and , God knows , it extended a very little way . " - Mr. Pope . my When I had done with my priests , I took to reading by myself , for which I had ...
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... learned his acci- dence at Twyford , where he wrote a satire on some faults of his master . Then he was a little while at Mr. Dean's seminary at Mary - le - bone , and some time under the same after he removed to Hyde - park- corner ...
... learned his acci- dence at Twyford , where he wrote a satire on some faults of his master . Then he was a little while at Mr. Dean's seminary at Mary - le - bone , and some time under the same after he removed to Hyde - park- corner ...
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... learned versification chiefly from Dry- den's works , who has improved it much beyond any of our former poets , and would probably have brought it to its perfection , had not he been unhappily obliged to write so often in haste . - The ...
... learned versification chiefly from Dry- den's works , who has improved it much beyond any of our former poets , and would probably have brought it to its perfection , had not he been unhappily obliged to write so often in haste . - The ...
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... learned very early to read , and delighted extremely in it ; and taught my- self to write very early too , by copying from printed books * ; with which I used to divert myself , as other children do , with scrawling out pictures . The ...
... learned very early to read , and delighted extremely in it ; and taught my- self to write very early too , by copying from printed books * ; with which I used to divert myself , as other children do , with scrawling out pictures . The ...
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... learned the unity of the Deity , and the other purer doctrines afterwards kept up in the Mysteries . - The same . Though there is none of it writ as yet , what I look upon as more than half the work is already done , for it is all ...
... learned the unity of the Deity , and the other purer doctrines afterwards kept up in the Mysteries . - The same . Though there is none of it writ as yet , what I look upon as more than half the work is already done , for it is all ...
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