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Page 5
... attached a melan- choly and peculiar interest , which had imprinted on his young heart the memory of joys never known again . His home in the rectory of Berkhampstead appears to have been the abode of perfect domestic happiness . His ...
... attached a melan- choly and peculiar interest , which had imprinted on his young heart the memory of joys never known again . His home in the rectory of Berkhampstead appears to have been the abode of perfect domestic happiness . His ...
Page 68
... attached to none more warmly than to Lloyd . To assist him in various literary undertakings , he is supposed to have written a number of pieces , both in prose and verse , which cannot now be identified . Besides the talents and amiable ...
... attached to none more warmly than to Lloyd . To assist him in various literary undertakings , he is supposed to have written a number of pieces , both in prose and verse , which cannot now be identified . Besides the talents and amiable ...
Page 205
... attached to such exercises , by the resolution so often expressed in his letters , " to allow himself to be turned out of his way from Homer by no consideration that he could possibly put aside . ” His patience under criticism forms ...
... attached to such exercises , by the resolution so often expressed in his letters , " to allow himself to be turned out of his way from Homer by no consideration that he could possibly put aside . ” His patience under criticism forms ...
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