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... writers on youthful minds - Bowles's sonnets - Comparison between the Poets before and since Mr. Pope . IT has been my lot to have had my name introduced both in conversation , and in print , more frequently than I find it easy to ...
... writers on youthful minds - Bowles's sonnets - Comparison between the Poets before and since Mr. Pope . IT has been my lot to have had my name introduced both in conversation , and in print , more frequently than I find it easy to ...
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... writer is the least able to detect in his own compositions : and my mind was not then sufficiently disciplined to receive the au- thority of others , as a substitute for my own conviction . Satisfied that the thoughts , such as they ...
... writer is the least able to detect in his own compositions : and my mind was not then sufficiently disciplined to receive the au- thority of others , as a substitute for my own conviction . Satisfied that the thoughts , such as they ...
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... writer , why this or that sentence might not have found as appropriate a place under this or that other thesis : and if no satisfying answer could be returned , and two faults of the same kind were found in one exercise , the ...
... writer , why this or that sentence might not have found as appropriate a place under this or that other thesis : and if no satisfying answer could be returned , and two faults of the same kind were found in one exercise , the ...
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... writer . So long ago as the publica- tion of the second number of the monthly ma- gazine , under the name of NEHEMIAH HIGGEN- BOTTOM I Contributed three sonnets , the first of which had for its object to excite a good - natur- ed laugh ...
... writer . So long ago as the publica- tion of the second number of the monthly ma- gazine , under the name of NEHEMIAH HIGGEN- BOTTOM I Contributed three sonnets , the first of which had for its object to excite a good - natur- ed laugh ...
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... writers are sure , sooner or later to awake from their dream of vanity to disappointment and neglect with embittered and envenomed feelings . Even du- Especially " in this AGE OF PERSONALITY , this age of literary and political ...
... writers are sure , sooner or later to awake from their dream of vanity to disappointment and neglect with embittered and envenomed feelings . Even du- Especially " in this AGE OF PERSONALITY , this age of literary and political ...
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