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An Introduction to the Most Useful European Languages ...: Select Passages ... - Page 188
by Giuseppe Baretti - 1772 - 469 pages
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A Hand-book of English Literature Intended for the Use of High Schools, as ...

Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...refinement. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire...
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The History of Rasselas. And Elizabeth

Samuel Johnson - 1876 - 430 pages
...refinement. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire,...
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Johnson. Select works, ed. with intr. and notes by A. Milnes. Lives of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...refinement. 'I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire...
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The Handbook of Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief ...

Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...refinement. I was desirous to add my name to this illuitrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man wan ever great by imitation. With slavish...
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The history of the caliph Vathek, by W. Beckford [tr. by S. Henley]. Also ...

William Beckford - 1883 - 456 pages
...refinement. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire...
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The History of the Caliph Vathek

William Beckford - Ethiopia - 1883 - 452 pages
...RASSELAS. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire...
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Johnson's History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1891 - 286 pages
...refinement. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca.7 But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire...
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English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volume 4

Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 pages
...refinement. I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire...
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English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volume 4

Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 pages
...refinement. I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire...
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English Prose: Eighteenth century

Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1911 - 664 pages
...refinement. I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire...
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