Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 1J. Murray, 1828 |
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... language of one whose peace of mind was unhappily altogether limited to the brief period of his childhood , and , addressing the aged of the earth , exclaim Tell me , ye hoary few , who glide along , The feeble Veterans of some former ...
... language of one whose peace of mind was unhappily altogether limited to the brief period of his childhood , and , addressing the aged of the earth , exclaim Tell me , ye hoary few , who glide along , The feeble Veterans of some former ...
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... language , were the Georgics of Virgil , and the Epistles of Pliny . I am acquainted , indeed , with no book in the whole range of Roman literature better calculated , in every point of view , to excite and keep alive in the breasts of ...
... language , were the Georgics of Virgil , and the Epistles of Pliny . I am acquainted , indeed , with no book in the whole range of Roman literature better calculated , in every point of view , to excite and keep alive in the breasts of ...
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... language of the Roman , the translation of Mr. Melmoth . It is one of great elegance and beauty , and exhibits at the same time no small portion of epistolary ease and freedom ; but it frequently deviates from the character of the ...
... language of the Roman , the translation of Mr. Melmoth . It is one of great elegance and beauty , and exhibits at the same time no small portion of epistolary ease and freedom ; but it frequently deviates from the character of the ...
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... language of this question , almost unintelligible at present , proves the antiquity of the story , which nearly amounts to proving its truth . But ' bootless bene ' is unavail- ing prayer ; and the meaning , though imperfectly expressed ...
... language of this question , almost unintelligible at present , proves the antiquity of the story , which nearly amounts to proving its truth . But ' bootless bene ' is unavail- ing prayer ; and the meaning , though imperfectly expressed ...
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... language , style , and orthography of the composition , which are those of the period imme- diately preceding the accession of Henry VII . , but it coincides throughout with the extraordinary circumstances which accompanied the youth ...
... language , style , and orthography of the composition , which are those of the period imme- diately preceding the accession of Henry VII . , but it coincides throughout with the extraordinary circumstances which accompanied the youth ...
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Mornings in Spring; Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical ..., Volume 1 Nathan Drake No preview available - 2012 |
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