Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 1J. Murray, 1828 |
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... Virtues sigh'd a faint adieu ; But bless the scroll which fairer words adorn , Traced by the rosy finger of the Morn ; When Friendship bow'd before the shrine of Truth , And Love , without his pinions , smiled on Youth . BYRON . There ...
... Virtues sigh'd a faint adieu ; But bless the scroll which fairer words adorn , Traced by the rosy finger of the Morn ; When Friendship bow'd before the shrine of Truth , And Love , without his pinions , smiled on Youth . BYRON . There ...
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... virtue , and an ardent spirit of literary enthusiasm , than the letters of the younger Pliny . The moral character of this accomplished patrician , estimating it , as in charity we ought to do , not by a comparison with the Christian ...
... virtue , and an ardent spirit of literary enthusiasm , than the letters of the younger Pliny . The moral character of this accomplished patrician , estimating it , as in charity we ought to do , not by a comparison with the Christian ...
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... virtue could always rely . If we now turn from the moral to the literary features of Pliny , the topic to which , in illustration of the happy influence of an early - acquired love for letters , I shall devote the residue of this paper ...
... virtue could always rely . If we now turn from the moral to the literary features of Pliny , the topic to which , in illustration of the happy influence of an early - acquired love for letters , I shall devote the residue of this paper ...
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... virtues and munificence of its celebrated citizen . Nothing , indeed , can more decisively prove that the life of Pliny was in perfect correspondence with the tenor of his writings , than the fact , that he was not only the cherished ...
... virtues and munificence of its celebrated citizen . Nothing , indeed , can more decisively prove that the life of Pliny was in perfect correspondence with the tenor of his writings , than the fact , that he was not only the cherished ...
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... virtue and talent of no ordinary kind . The desire , in fact , of pro- tracting the footsteps of our existence beyond the very brief period to which , in the common course of nature , our being on this earthly stage is limited , seems ...
... virtue and talent of no ordinary kind . The desire , in fact , of pro- tracting the footsteps of our existence beyond the very brief period to which , in the common course of nature , our being on this earthly stage is limited , seems ...
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Mornings in Spring; Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical ..., Volume 1 Nathan Drake No preview available - 2012 |
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