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Page 93
... remarkable , but that its author , who had been lately defending the supreme powers of his country , and was then writing Paradise Lost , could de- scend from his elevation to rescue children from the per- plexity of grammatical ...
... remarkable , but that its author , who had been lately defending the supreme powers of his country , and was then writing Paradise Lost , could de- scend from his elevation to rescue children from the per- plexity of grammatical ...
Page 107
... remarkable . Of the English poets he set most value upon Spenser , Shakespeare , and Cowley . Spenser was apparently his favourite : Shakespeare he may easily be supposed to like , with every other skilful reader ; but I should not have ...
... remarkable . Of the English poets he set most value upon Spenser , Shakespeare , and Cowley . Spenser was apparently his favourite : Shakespeare he may easily be supposed to like , with every other skilful reader ; but I should not have ...
Page 361
... remarkable particular , that he never in his whole life had once spoken to Smith ; his company being , as must be inferred , not accepted by those who attended to their characters . The charge was afterwards very diligently refuted by ...
... remarkable particular , that he never in his whole life had once spoken to Smith ; his company being , as must be inferred , not accepted by those who attended to their characters . The charge was afterwards very diligently refuted by ...
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