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Page 77
... learning of this egregious performance , and publish the Feast of the Poets in two volumes quarto . Apollo , like other vivacious spirits , chose to do without his foresight sometimes - as the commentator will no doubt have the goodness ...
... learning of this egregious performance , and publish the Feast of the Poets in two volumes quarto . Apollo , like other vivacious spirits , chose to do without his foresight sometimes - as the commentator will no doubt have the goodness ...
Page 80
... learning ; and I recollect , it used to be a proud enjoyment to us to witness the grateful inscriptions in gold letters with which Joshua Barnes had adorned the books that he presented to the library . As to college honours , at least ...
... learning ; and I recollect , it used to be a proud enjoyment to us to witness the grateful inscriptions in gold letters with which Joshua Barnes had adorned the books that he presented to the library . As to college honours , at least ...
Page 92
... learning : a great inferiority , no doubt , but still only differing in degree ; for learning is but the knowledge of books , as know- ledge is the learning of things . Mr. Wordsworth , to illustrate what he means , quotes the following ...
... learning : a great inferiority , no doubt , but still only differing in degree ; for learning is but the knowledge of books , as know- ledge is the learning of things . Mr. Wordsworth , to illustrate what he means , quotes the following ...
Page 96
... learning , is in fact a singular example the other way , enriching the groundwork of his writings with figures and metaphors even to crowding , and evidently alive to all the use and dignity of classical allusion : not that a poet is ...
... learning , is in fact a singular example the other way , enriching the groundwork of his writings with figures and metaphors even to crowding , and evidently alive to all the use and dignity of classical allusion : not that a poet is ...
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... learning nor business ; but , not to mention that Nature in him seems to have been oracular , and rather to have ... learning ; for learning is apt to make a man doat upon old books ; and the most accomplished readers , not being so apt ...
... learning nor business ; but , not to mention that Nature in him seems to have been oracular , and rather to have ... learning ; for learning is apt to make a man doat upon old books ; and the most accomplished readers , not being so apt ...
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