Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and MenJ. Murray, 1820 - 302 էջ |
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... true Editor of this Work ; it is well known that his taste for lite- rary anecdotes was keen , and his skill in literary history excelled that of any man of letters of his day . The great value of the present col- lection must always ...
... true Editor of this Work ; it is well known that his taste for lite- rary anecdotes was keen , and his skill in literary history excelled that of any man of letters of his day . The great value of the present col- lection must always ...
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... true sensibility for genius , as to write down what can only confer fame on another ; although our own literature is di- stinguished above that of every other , by a monument of this nature which may excite our admiration as much as our ...
... true sensibility for genius , as to write down what can only confer fame on another ; although our own literature is di- stinguished above that of every other , by a monument of this nature which may excite our admiration as much as our ...
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... true ; but if you consider how I should have been employed all the time , in nursing and attending a sick friend , that thought would have made it agreeable . - The same . You know I love short inscriptions , and that may be one reason ...
... true ; but if you consider how I should have been employed all the time , in nursing and attending a sick friend , that thought would have made it agreeable . - The same . You know I love short inscriptions , and that may be one reason ...
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... true , even in so dry a thing as Antiquities ? Yes , I have experienced that myself . I once got deep into Grævius , and was taken greatly with it ; so far , as to write a treatise in Latin , collected from the writers in Grævius , on ...
... true , even in so dry a thing as Antiquities ? Yes , I have experienced that myself . I once got deep into Grævius , and was taken greatly with it ; so far , as to write a treatise in Latin , collected from the writers in Grævius , on ...
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Joseph Spence Edmond Malone. lively . It is very true , that in the latter part of his life , when he told a story , he was always the last to laugh at it , and seldom went beyond a particular easy smile on any occasion that I remember ...
Joseph Spence Edmond Malone. lively . It is very true , that in the latter part of his life , when he told a story , he was always the last to laugh at it , and seldom went beyond a particular easy smile on any occasion that I remember ...
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