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... presents a perfect gallery of literary life à la mode , a series of studies that might have served as an ... present series largely in order to save its writer trouble . Critics have pointed out again and again that it is out ...
... presents a perfect gallery of literary life à la mode , a series of studies that might have served as an ... present series largely in order to save its writer trouble . Critics have pointed out again and again that it is out ...
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... present time is very different from that of the last century . In this country an academy could be expected to do but little . If an academician's place were profitable , it would be given by interest ; if attendance were gratuitous ...
... present time is very different from that of the last century . In this country an academy could be expected to do but little . If an academician's place were profitable , it would be given by interest ; if attendance were gratuitous ...
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... present writers are by these wretches reduced to the same condition Virgil was , when the centurion seized on his estate . But I don't doubt but I can fix upon the Maecenas of the present age , that will retrieve them from it . But ...
... present writers are by these wretches reduced to the same condition Virgil was , when the centurion seized on his estate . But I don't doubt but I can fix upon the Maecenas of the present age , that will retrieve them from it . But ...
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