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... perhaps , as to your old friend Ben Jonson , we are generally agreed ; and no two per- sons can be more firmly persuaded , that there is but one thing happier than friend- ship , and nothing better than principle . Your's most sincerely ...
... perhaps , as to your old friend Ben Jonson , we are generally agreed ; and no two per- sons can be more firmly persuaded , that there is but one thing happier than friend- ship , and nothing better than principle . Your's most sincerely ...
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... perhaps , its claims on their good opinion . For this purpose he has considerably increased the text , and add- ed almost the whole of the present notes . The latter , it is true , after all , are rather re- sults of criticism , than ...
... perhaps , its claims on their good opinion . For this purpose he has considerably increased the text , and add- ed almost the whole of the present notes . The latter , it is true , after all , are rather re- sults of criticism , than ...
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... perhaps , the first who , by carrying it to its extreme pitch of sameness , and ringing it affectedly in one's ears , gave the public at large a suspicion that there was something wrong in its nature . But of those who saw its ...
... perhaps , the first who , by carrying it to its extreme pitch of sameness , and ringing it affectedly in one's ears , gave the public at large a suspicion that there was something wrong in its nature . But of those who saw its ...
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... perhaps , could be added to the facts of his story ; but they are of a nature to be rendered doubly interesting by proper management ; no subject , it is evident , could be more justly provocative of elegant reflec- tion and ...
... perhaps , could be added to the facts of his story ; but they are of a nature to be rendered doubly interesting by proper management ; no subject , it is evident , could be more justly provocative of elegant reflec- tion and ...
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... from every reader of common sense . The truth is , that Mr. Colman the Younger , as he calls himself , has been prodigious- ly overrated in his time , partly , perhaps , from his real superiority to the Dibdins and Reynoldses as a 46.
... from every reader of common sense . The truth is , that Mr. Colman the Younger , as he calls himself , has been prodigious- ly overrated in his time , partly , perhaps , from his real superiority to the Dibdins and Reynoldses as a 46.
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