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At the same time that we were studying the Greek Tragic Poets , he made us read Shakspeare and Milton as lessons : and they were the lessons too , which required most time and trouble to bring up , so as to escape his censure .
At the same time that we were studying the Greek Tragic Poets , he made us read Shakspeare and Milton as lessons : and they were the lessons too , which required most time and trouble to bring up , so as to escape his censure .
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... which , in the present anglo - gallican fashion of unconnected , epigrammatic periods , it requires but an ordinary portion of ingenuity to vary indefinitely , and yet still produce something , which , if not sense , will be so like ...
... which , in the present anglo - gallican fashion of unconnected , epigrammatic periods , it requires but an ordinary portion of ingenuity to vary indefinitely , and yet still produce something , which , if not sense , will be so like ...
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But as it is the nature of scorn , envy , and all malignant propensities to require a quick change of objects , such writers are sure , sooner or later to awake from their dream of vanity to disappointment and neglect with embittered ...
But as it is the nature of scorn , envy , and all malignant propensities to require a quick change of objects , such writers are sure , sooner or later to awake from their dream of vanity to disappointment and neglect with embittered ...
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... to the grossness of the provocation , and the importance of the object . There is no profession on earth , which requires ܪ a an attention so early , so long , or 46.
... to the grossness of the provocation , and the importance of the object . There is no profession on earth , which requires ܪ a an attention so early , so long , or 46.
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will be apt to suspect , that there must be something more than usually strong and extensive in a reputation , that could either require or stand so merciless and long - continued a cannonading . Without any feeling of anger therefore ...
will be apt to suspect , that there must be something more than usually strong and extensive in a reputation , that could either require or stand so merciless and long - continued a cannonading . Without any feeling of anger therefore ...
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