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Page xxiv
... Observations and Excursions by Himself , edited by George Birkbeck Hill , D.C.L. , LL.D. , Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College , Oxford . London , 1900 . Letters written by a Grandfather , selected by Lucy Crump . London , 1903 ...
... Observations and Excursions by Himself , edited by George Birkbeck Hill , D.C.L. , LL.D. , Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College , Oxford . London , 1900 . Letters written by a Grandfather , selected by Lucy Crump . London , 1903 ...
Page xxvi
... observed to me- " Sir , I have always said the booksellers were a generous set of men . Nor , in the present instance , have I reason to complain . The fact is , not that they have paid me too little , but that I have written too much ...
... observed to me- " Sir , I have always said the booksellers were a generous set of men . Nor , in the present instance , have I reason to complain . The fact is , not that they have paid me too little , but that I have written too much ...
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... observation . Their attempts were always analytick : they broke every image into fragments , and could no more represent by their slender conceits and laboured particularities the prospects of nature or the scenes of life , than he who ...
... observation . Their attempts were always analytick : they broke every image into fragments , and could no more represent by their slender conceits and laboured particularities the prospects of nature or the scenes of life , than he who ...
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... observed in his decisive professorial manner , " Very well - Very well . " Johnson however added , " Yes , they are very well , Sir ; but you may observe in what manner they are well . They are the forcible verses of a man of a strong ...
... observed in his decisive professorial manner , " Very well - Very well . " Johnson however added , " Yes , they are very well , Sir ; but you may observe in what manner they are well . They are the forcible verses of a man of a strong ...
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... observe that whatever is said of ' the original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns " , ' is superadded by his para- * In 1599 was published Rerum memorabilium iam olim deperdita- rum & c . libri duo , a translation by H ...
... observe that whatever is said of ' the original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns " , ' is superadded by his para- * In 1599 was published Rerum memorabilium iam olim deperdita- rum & c . libri duo , a translation by H ...
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