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... learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than ...
... learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than ...
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... learning ' sake , and embrace virtue for itself , yet it is true , that youth , which is the season when learning is gotten , is not without ambition : nor will ever take pains to excel in anything , when there is not some hope of ...
... learning ' sake , and embrace virtue for itself , yet it is true , that youth , which is the season when learning is gotten , is not without ambition : nor will ever take pains to excel in anything , when there is not some hope of ...
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... learning , but learning out of place . When once he had engaged himself in disputation , thoughts flowed in on either side : he was now no longer at a loss ; he had always objections and solutions at command : " verbaque provisam rem ...
... learning , but learning out of place . When once he had engaged himself in disputation , thoughts flowed in on either side : he was now no longer at a loss ; he had always objections and solutions at command : " verbaque provisam rem ...
Contents
WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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