Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons; and Intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotes, Volume 6author, 1831 - Authors, English |
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... particular , the most learned in the estimation of his contemporaries , the best poet of his age ( although he who " exhausted worlds and then imagined new " is now , by the suffrage of posterity , preferred to a seat so vastly superior ...
... particular , the most learned in the estimation of his contemporaries , the best poet of his age ( although he who " exhausted worlds and then imagined new " is now , by the suffrage of posterity , preferred to a seat so vastly superior ...
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... particular exertions . " The lapse of many months had now soothed and tranquil . lized my mind , and I once more returned to the translation , to which a wish to serve a young man surrounded with difficul- ties , had induced a number of ...
... particular exertions . " The lapse of many months had now soothed and tranquil . lized my mind , and I once more returned to the translation , to which a wish to serve a young man surrounded with difficul- ties , had induced a number of ...
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... particular notice by a gentleman of Devonshire , whom I was proud of an opportu- nity to oblige . This person's residence at Oxford was not long , and when he returned to town , I maintained a correspondence with him by letters . At his ...
... particular notice by a gentleman of Devonshire , whom I was proud of an opportu- nity to oblige . This person's residence at Oxford was not long , and when he returned to town , I maintained a correspondence with him by letters . At his ...
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... particular stories , which , from their peculiar happiness in relat- ing them , become exclusively their own ; but Gifford had an inexhaustible supply , and his arch drollery rendered all almost equally good . I will merely mention one ...
... particular stories , which , from their peculiar happiness in relat- ing them , become exclusively their own ; but Gifford had an inexhaustible supply , and his arch drollery rendered all almost equally good . I will merely mention one ...
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... particular sum . He several times returned money to Murray , saying , ' He had been too liberal . ' Perhaps he was the only man on this side the Tweed who thought so ! He was perfectly indifferent about wealth . I do not know a better ...
... particular sum . He several times returned money to Murray , saying , ' He had been too liberal . ' Perhaps he was the only man on this side the Tweed who thought so ! He was perfectly indifferent about wealth . I do not know a better ...
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Page 495 - Essays on the Lives and Writings of Fletcher of Saltoun and the Poet Thomson: Biographical, critical, and political. With some Pieces of Thomson's never before published.
Page 23 - ... the deficiencies of his fortune. On examining into the nature of my literary attainments, he found them absolutely nothing: he heard, however, with equal surprise and pleasure, that amidst the grossest ignorance of books, I had made a very considerable progress in the mathematics. He engaged me to enter into the details...