The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 7Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 - English poetry (Collections). |
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... truth , and most materials for conversation . We have the presumption to think that the disposition and capacities of a boy are little considered , when he is expected to become learned in the sciences , adept in morality , or fertile ...
... truth , and most materials for conversation . We have the presumption to think that the disposition and capacities of a boy are little considered , when he is expected to become learned in the sciences , adept in morality , or fertile ...
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... truth ; and , from the fury , with which Mr. Godwin Aies at the doctor , whenever he meets or wherever he can find him , we suspect that his book , in quarto , was written chiefly to refute what he thinks so insolent a paragraph ...
... truth ; and , from the fury , with which Mr. Godwin Aies at the doctor , whenever he meets or wherever he can find him , we suspect that his book , in quarto , was written chiefly to refute what he thinks so insolent a paragraph ...
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... truth seems to be , that Milton's eyes were constitutionally weak ; and that the intenseness of his application only accelerated * Todd , vol , i . p . 82 , note . It was the fashion of the times to play upon names ; and Rowland thus ...
... truth seems to be , that Milton's eyes were constitutionally weak ; and that the intenseness of his application only accelerated * Todd , vol , i . p . 82 , note . It was the fashion of the times to play upon names ; and Rowland thus ...
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... career , But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th , Perhaps my semblance may deceive the truth , That I to manhood am arrived so near . Aub . ap . Godw , p . 337 . 6 ceived from his mother so many other tokens of E 2 LIFE OF MILTON .
... career , But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th , Perhaps my semblance may deceive the truth , That I to manhood am arrived so near . Aub . ap . Godw , p . 337 . 6 ceived from his mother so many other tokens of E 2 LIFE OF MILTON .
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... truth , that his biographers would make a personal merit of an hereditary disease . Aubrey makes a query , ' when he became stark blind ; ' and the question still remains to be mooted . The common account is , that the left eye was gone ...
... truth , that his biographers would make a personal merit of an hereditary disease . Aubrey makes a query , ' when he became stark blind ; ' and the question still remains to be mooted . The common account is , that the left eye was gone ...
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