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... admired classic , and yet has never been noticed , till a gentleman [ Mr. Pinkerton ] who reads and writes with the penetrating observation of Taci- tus , furnished me with the following quotation from book xv . of the Annals of that ...
... admired classic , and yet has never been noticed , till a gentleman [ Mr. Pinkerton ] who reads and writes with the penetrating observation of Taci- tus , furnished me with the following quotation from book xv . of the Annals of that ...
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... admired writer , poste- rior to Milton , and see how cold , how insipid , * Since the above was written , I have found Milton praised and sir William Temple censured , on the same foundations , in a poem called The rise and progress of ...
... admired writer , poste- rior to Milton , and see how cold , how insipid , * Since the above was written , I have found Milton praised and sir William Temple censured , on the same foundations , in a poem called The rise and progress of ...
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... admired garden was . ) “ Because I take * the garden I have named to have been in all kinds the most beautiful and perfect , at least in the figure and disposition , that I have ever seen , I will describe it for a model to those that ...
... admired garden was . ) “ Because I take * the garden I have named to have been in all kinds the most beautiful and perfect , at least in the figure and disposition , that I have ever seen , I will describe it for a model to those that ...
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