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... given ( perhaps a little ostentatiously ) to prefixing quotations from Horace , Juvenal , Martial , and even more recondite authors , to the successive sections of The Borough . But wherever he found books- especially poetry - he read ...
... given ( perhaps a little ostentatiously ) to prefixing quotations from Horace , Juvenal , Martial , and even more recondite authors , to the successive sections of The Borough . But wherever he found books- especially poetry - he read ...
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... given it a still more odd name , ' An Epistle from the Devil . ' To - morrow I hope to transcribe it fair , and send it by Monday . " " Mr. Dodsley's reply just received : Mr. Dodsley presents his compliments to the gentleman who ...
... given it a still more odd name , ' An Epistle from the Devil . ' To - morrow I hope to transcribe it fair , and send it by Monday . " " Mr. Dodsley's reply just received : Mr. Dodsley presents his compliments to the gentleman who ...
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... given The Library precedence , for the other was in every respect the more remarkable . But Burke , a conservative in this as in other matters , probably thought that a new poet desiring to be heard would be wiser in not at once ...
... given The Library precedence , for the other was in every respect the more remarkable . But Burke , a conservative in this as in other matters , probably thought that a new poet desiring to be heard would be wiser in not at once ...
Page 35
... given as June 26th . The year , however , is obviously 1781 , for the letter con- sists of further details of Crabbe's early life , not supplied in the earlier effusion . At the date of this second letter , Crabbe had been known to ...
... given as June 26th . The year , however , is obviously 1781 , for the letter con- sists of further details of Crabbe's early life , not supplied in the earlier effusion . At the date of this second letter , Crabbe had been known to ...
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... given that the money spent on his education had not been thrown away . But , apart from the family pride in him , and that of Miss Elmy and other friends at Parham , Crabbe's reception by his former friends and neighbours in Aldeburgh ...
... given that the money spent on his education had not been thrown away . But , apart from the family pride in him , and that of Miss Elmy and other friends at Parham , Crabbe's reception by his former friends and neighbours in Aldeburgh ...
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