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... language are fo interefting , and contain fuch marks of Chriftian refignation and calmness of mind , as one that he wrote to Swift a little before his death , and is inferted in the third volume of Letters , p . 157. He frequently , and ...
... language are fo interefting , and contain fuch marks of Chriftian refignation and calmness of mind , as one that he wrote to Swift a little before his death , and is inferted in the third volume of Letters , p . 157. He frequently , and ...
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... language : and I mention this my opinion more freely , because I perceive many matters use a contrary method . " Dial . iv . VER . 13. Mint ] A place to which infolvent debtors retired , to enjoy an illegal prote & ion , which they were ...
... language : and I mention this my opinion more freely , because I perceive many matters use a contrary method . " Dial . iv . VER . 13. Mint ] A place to which infolvent debtors retired , to enjoy an illegal prote & ion , which they were ...
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... language has been enriched , fince that time . When Gray published his exquifite ode on Eton College , his firft publication , little notice was taken of it : but i suppose no critic can be found that will not place it far above Pope's ...
... language has been enriched , fince that time . When Gray published his exquifite ode on Eton College , his firft publication , little notice was taken of it : but i suppose no critic can be found that will not place it far above Pope's ...
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... language , over - ruled me . " These are the very words which I traufcribed at the time . VER . 163. Thefe ribalds , ] How defervedly this title is given to the genius of PHILOLOGY , may be feen by a short account of the manners of the ...
... language , over - ruled me . " These are the very words which I traufcribed at the time . VER . 163. Thefe ribalds , ] How defervedly this title is given to the genius of PHILOLOGY , may be feen by a short account of the manners of the ...
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... language in the Weft ; info much , that Hermolaus Barbarus , a paffionate admirer of it , and a noted critic , ufed to boat , that he had invoked and raised the Devil , and puzzled him into the bargain , about the meaning of the ...
... language in the Weft ; info much , that Hermolaus Barbarus , a paffionate admirer of it , and a noted critic , ufed to boat , that he had invoked and raised the Devil , and puzzled him into the bargain , about the meaning of the ...
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