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... faid with truth , and he hopes with modefty , that nothing of this kind , which has been published in profe , can justly discourage him from the prefent undertaking . In forming this collection , he has en- deavoured to diftinguish , by ...
... faid with truth , and he hopes with modefty , that nothing of this kind , which has been published in profe , can justly discourage him from the prefent undertaking . In forming this collection , he has en- deavoured to diftinguish , by ...
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... faid ( and I think with very good reason ) that Efop chofe this method " , because his station as a flave would otherwife have weakened his . authority ; which defect he was willing to fupply by the strength and beauty of his al ...
... faid ( and I think with very good reason ) that Efop chofe this method " , because his station as a flave would otherwife have weakened his . authority ; which defect he was willing to fupply by the strength and beauty of his al ...
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... faid to have had her name from the beauty of her complexion , ( Podor & wais ; ) he feems to me to have had his from the particular sparkling of his eyes : ( Alow , the future tenfe of Ada , & wif . ) She made a noble prefent to the ...
... faid to have had her name from the beauty of her complexion , ( Podor & wais ; ) he feems to me to have had his from the particular sparkling of his eyes : ( Alow , the future tenfe of Ada , & wif . ) She made a noble prefent to the ...
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Robert Dodsley. 8 Greece , his contemporaries : fo that what Horace faid of Stertinius , perhaps in his humorous way , " That he was the eighth of the wife men , " might be faid of Efop very seriously ; nay , there are fome who very much ...
Robert Dodsley. 8 Greece , his contemporaries : fo that what Horace faid of Stertinius , perhaps in his humorous way , " That he was the eighth of the wife men , " might be faid of Efop very seriously ; nay , there are fome who very much ...
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... faid to feel our duties at the very inftant we comprehend them . I am very fenfible with what difficulty a Fable is brought to a ftrict agreement with the foregoing account of it . This , however , ought to be the writer's aim . ' Tis ...
... faid to feel our duties at the very inftant we comprehend them . I am very fenfible with what difficulty a Fable is brought to a ftrict agreement with the foregoing account of it . This , however , ought to be the writer's aim . ' Tis ...
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Page 96 - to be severed from you, my associates, which Heaven forbid, you may find me kneeling in devotion before the tomb of Shakespeare, or wrapt in some grove where Milton talked with angels, or musing in the grotto where Pope caught inspiration.