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... wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice dis- cernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the trans- lator of Polybius ...
... wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice dis- cernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the trans- lator of Polybius ...
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... wonder - working academy , I do not know that there ever proceeded any man very eminent for knowledge : its only genuine product , I believe , is a small History of Poetry , written in Latin by his nephew Philips , of which perhaps none ...
... wonder - working academy , I do not know that there ever proceeded any man very eminent for knowledge : its only genuine product , I believe , is a small History of Poetry , written in Latin by his nephew Philips , of which perhaps none ...
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... artfully suspended , the delay was publicly im- puted to Mr. Milton's indisposition ; and the Swedish agent was provoked to express his wonder , ' that only one man in England could write Latin , and THE LIFE OF MILTON . 31.
... artfully suspended , the delay was publicly im- puted to Mr. Milton's indisposition ; and the Swedish agent was provoked to express his wonder , ' that only one man in England could write Latin , and THE LIFE OF MILTON . 31.
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... wonder . Yet something of this inequality happens to every man in every mode of exertion , manual or mental . The mechanic cannot handle his hammer and his file at all times with equal dexterity ; there are hours , he knows not why ...
... wonder . Yet something of this inequality happens to every man in every mode of exertion , manual or mental . The mechanic cannot handle his hammer and his file at all times with equal dexterity ; there are hours , he knows not why ...
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... wonder been lavished on an evil that was never felt ? That in the reigns of Charles and James the ' Pa- radise Lost ' received no public acclamations , is rea- dily confessed . Wit and literature were on the side of the Court : and who ...
... wonder been lavished on an evil that was never felt ? That in the reigns of Charles and James the ' Pa- radise Lost ' received no public acclamations , is rea- dily confessed . Wit and literature were on the side of the Court : and who ...
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