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... tastes , while George showed no aptitude or liking for the sea , but from his earliest years evinced a fondness for books , and a marked aptitude for learn- ing . He was sent early to the usual dame - school , and developed an ...
... tastes , while George showed no aptitude or liking for the sea , but from his earliest years evinced a fondness for books , and a marked aptitude for learn- ing . He was sent early to the usual dame - school , and developed an ...
Page 13
... taste . But henceforth this feeling was to disappear . This crowning sorrow in the family wrought more cordial feelings . Crabbe was one of those who had known and been kind to their child , and such were now , " Peculiar people — death ...
... taste . But henceforth this feeling was to disappear . This crowning sorrow in the family wrought more cordial feelings . Crabbe was one of those who had known and been kind to their child , and such were now , " Peculiar people — death ...
Page 23
... taste of the town : " Be not too eager in the arduous chase ; Who pants for triumph seldom wins the race : Venture not all , but wisely hoard thy worth , And let thy labours one by one go forth : Some happier scrap capricious wits may ...
... taste of the town : " Be not too eager in the arduous chase ; Who pants for triumph seldom wins the race : Venture not all , but wisely hoard thy worth , And let thy labours one by one go forth : Some happier scrap capricious wits may ...
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... taste for didactic epigram varied by a certain amount of florid rhetoric . And there was little beyond this in Crabbe's moralisings on the respec- tive functions of theology , history , poetry , and the rest , as represented on the ...
... taste for didactic epigram varied by a certain amount of florid rhetoric . And there was little beyond this in Crabbe's moralisings on the respec- tive functions of theology , history , poetry , and the rest , as represented on the ...
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... tastes and gifts pointed much more clearly towards divinity than to medicine . His special training for the office of a clergyman was of course deficient . He probably had no Greek , but he had mastered enough of Latin to read and quote ...
... tastes and gifts pointed much more clearly towards divinity than to medicine . His special training for the office of a clergyman was of course deficient . He probably had no Greek , but he had mastered enough of Latin to read and quote ...
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