Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and MenJ. Murray, 1820 - 302 էջ |
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... reason why I like the epitaph of the Count of Mirandola so well . * Some time ago I made a parody of it for a man of a very opposite character . " Here lies Lord Coningsby ; be civil : " The rest God knows - perhaps the devil . " The ...
... reason why I like the epitaph of the Count of Mirandola so well . * Some time ago I made a parody of it for a man of a very opposite character . " Here lies Lord Coningsby ; be civil : " The rest God knows - perhaps the devil . " The ...
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... reasons so well as Mr. Locke . - The same . In my first setting out , I never read any art of logic or rhetoric . I met with Locke : he was quite insipid to me . I read Sir William Temple's Essays too then ; but , whenever there was any ...
... reasons so well as Mr. Locke . - The same . In my first setting out , I never read any art of logic or rhetoric . I met with Locke : he was quite insipid to me . I read Sir William Temple's Essays too then ; but , whenever there was any ...
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... worthy one . - Lady M. ( at Rome ) . [ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . ] When I was young I was a vast admirer of Ovid's Metamorphoses , and that was one of the chief reasons that set me upon the thoughts OF MEN AND BOOKS . 29.
... worthy one . - Lady M. ( at Rome ) . [ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . ] When I was young I was a vast admirer of Ovid's Metamorphoses , and that was one of the chief reasons that set me upon the thoughts OF MEN AND BOOKS . 29.
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Joseph Spence Edmond Malone. of the chief reasons that set me upon the thoughts of stealing the Latin language . Mr. Wortley was the only person to whom I communicated my design ; and he en- couraged me in it . I used to study five or ...
Joseph Spence Edmond Malone. of the chief reasons that set me upon the thoughts of stealing the Latin language . Mr. Wortley was the only person to whom I communicated my design ; and he en- couraged me in it . I used to study five or ...
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... reason that I know of . - The same . [ Several of them were on common subjects , and one in particular was that odd description of his house , which is printed * as sent to the Duke of Bucking- ham ; which may show that it was one of ...
... reason that I know of . - The same . [ Several of them were on common subjects , and one in particular was that odd description of his house , which is printed * as sent to the Duke of Bucking- ham ; which may show that it was one of ...
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