Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for the Impropvement of Young Persons Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1801 - English poetry |
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... racter of a companion , it has a great deal to fay to them ; and will probably improve in the power of affording pleasure and inftruction , the more its acquaint- ance is cultivated . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE THIRD AND FOURTH EDITIONS . A ...
... racter of a companion , it has a great deal to fay to them ; and will probably improve in the power of affording pleasure and inftruction , the more its acquaint- ance is cultivated . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE THIRD AND FOURTH EDITIONS . A ...
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... racter , where there were trees and fhade ; a fpot called the Lyceum . Zeno taught in a portico or colonnade , diftinguished from other buildings of that fort ( of which the Athenians had many ) by the name of the Variegated Portico ...
... racter , where there were trees and fhade ; a fpot called the Lyceum . Zeno taught in a portico or colonnade , diftinguished from other buildings of that fort ( of which the Athenians had many ) by the name of the Variegated Portico ...
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... racter , I mean in your public one , as well as in your private . Thofe who know the history of our foreign tranfactions , know the reputation that you acquired in Ger- many , by negociations of the last im- portance : and those who are ...
... racter , I mean in your public one , as well as in your private . Thofe who know the history of our foreign tranfactions , know the reputation that you acquired in Ger- many , by negociations of the last im- portance : and those who are ...
Contents
Tevion of Mr Allegory Spectator | 1 |
The Canal and the Brook | 11 |
On Goodbreeding | 17 |
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