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Page 45
... learned to read Persian ; and , years later , for a book I was then writing , he gave me a sentence from the Rubáiyát that Fitzgerald had failed to translate and that I quoted on my last page . * Leading me down a path , he pointed out ...
... learned to read Persian ; and , years later , for a book I was then writing , he gave me a sentence from the Rubáiyát that Fitzgerald had failed to translate and that I quoted on my last page . * Leading me down a path , he pointed out ...
Page 121
... learned modern bookman may seem a little far - fetched ; but , each a spectator against his will , they faced very much the same suffer- ings , though John , whose physical plight was the more grievous , had the stronger , more ...
... learned modern bookman may seem a little far - fetched ; but , each a spectator against his will , they faced very much the same suffer- ings , though John , whose physical plight was the more grievous , had the stronger , more ...
Page 123
... learned literary men . An exile from the court of Louis XIV , he passed his middle life and his old age in London , where Charles II , best - natured of English sovereigns , found him an extremely pleasant sinecure , appoint- ing him ...
... learned literary men . An exile from the court of Louis XIV , he passed his middle life and his old age in London , where Charles II , best - natured of English sovereigns , found him an extremely pleasant sinecure , appoint- ing him ...
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PROLOGUE I | 1 |
The Desire to Please | 25 |
The Disinterested Gift | 47 |
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