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Page 6
... pleasure in reading the youngest and crudest of these pieces , and will readily disown for me what I would myself disown . Should these volumes meet with a kind reception , a more complete selection from my miscellanies will be offered ...
... pleasure in reading the youngest and crudest of these pieces , and will readily disown for me what I would myself disown . Should these volumes meet with a kind reception , a more complete selection from my miscellanies will be offered ...
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... pleasure than the original production of which they treat , as melodies will sometimes ring sweetlier in the echo . Besides there is a peculiar pleasure in a true response ; it is the assurance of equipoise in the universe . These , if ...
... pleasure than the original production of which they treat , as melodies will sometimes ring sweetlier in the echo . Besides there is a peculiar pleasure in a true response ; it is the assurance of equipoise in the universe . These , if ...
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... pleasure , George , that I had supposed you were now too much of the churchman to value the fruits of my thought . George H. - God forbid that I should ever cease to reverence the mind that was , to my own , so truly that of an elder ...
... pleasure , George , that I had supposed you were now too much of the churchman to value the fruits of my thought . George H. - God forbid that I should ever cease to reverence the mind that was , to my own , so truly that of an elder ...
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... pleasure , rather rejoice than repine at be- ing blind . And my dear Philura , whatever may be the event , I wish you adieu with no less courage and composure than if I had the eyes of a lynx . " Though the organist was wrapped in utter ...
... pleasure , rather rejoice than repine at be- ing blind . And my dear Philura , whatever may be the event , I wish you adieu with no less courage and composure than if I had the eyes of a lynx . " Though the organist was wrapped in utter ...
Page 53
... pleasure we feel when family relations preserve their harmony , and the father becomes to the son a master and a model — a reve- rend teacher and a favourite study . Such a happy state of things makes the biography before us very ...
... pleasure we feel when family relations preserve their harmony , and the father becomes to the son a master and a model — a reve- rend teacher and a favourite study . Such a happy state of things makes the biography before us very ...
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