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... fay fomething of my felf , and my own lazinefs to undertake fo aukward a talk , I thought it the fhorteft way to put the laft hand to this Epifle . If it have any thing pleafing , it will be that by which I am moft defirous to please ...
... fay fomething of my felf , and my own lazinefs to undertake fo aukward a talk , I thought it the fhorteft way to put the laft hand to this Epifle . If it have any thing pleafing , it will be that by which I am moft defirous to please ...
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... fay his Queen , ) was forc'd to speak , or burst . And is not mine , my friend , a forer cafe , When ev'ry coxcomb ... fays , Sat. ix . v . 221. I have nothing to do with Chapelain's honour , or candour , or civility , or complaifance ...
... fay his Queen , ) was forc'd to speak , or burst . And is not mine , my friend , a forer cafe , When ev'ry coxcomb ... fays , Sat. ix . v . 221. I have nothing to do with Chapelain's honour , or candour , or civility , or complaifance ...
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... fays Mr. Mason , fat as easy to the farcafms of the many writers that endea- voured to eclipfe his poetical fame , as Mr. Gray appears to have done with refped to the parodies on his Odes , the world would not have been poffeffed of a ...
... fays Mr. Mason , fat as easy to the farcafms of the many writers that endea- voured to eclipfe his poetical fame , as Mr. Gray appears to have done with refped to the parodies on his Odes , the world would not have been poffeffed of a ...
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... fays in jeft , and with his ufual humour , is true in fa & : " I have obferved that a reader feldom perufes a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man , of a mild or choleric difpofition , married ...
... fays in jeft , and with his ufual humour , is true in fa & : " I have obferved that a reader feldom perufes a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or fair man , of a mild or choleric difpofition , married ...
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... fays , I fill keep up my correspondence with him , notwithstanding his Idiotry , for it is my principle to be conftant in my friend- Ships -- Je ne reste de luy efcrire , nonobftant fon Idioterie , d'autant que je fuis conftant en ...
... fays , I fill keep up my correspondence with him , notwithstanding his Idiotry , for it is my principle to be conftant in my friend- Ships -- Je ne reste de luy efcrire , nonobftant fon Idioterie , d'autant que je fuis conftant en ...
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