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... discovered , his imagina- tion might sometimes incite him to mention too ludicrously . A little knowledge of the world is suf- ficient to discover that such weakness is very com- mon , and that there are few who do not sometimes , in ...
... discovered , his imagina- tion might sometimes incite him to mention too ludicrously . A little knowledge of the world is suf- ficient to discover that such weakness is very com- mon , and that there are few who do not sometimes , in ...
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... discovered his birth , had an incessant desire to speak to his mother , who always avoided him in public , and refused him admission into her house . One evening walking , as it was his custom , in the street that she inhabited , he saw ...
... discovered his birth , had an incessant desire to speak to his mother , who always avoided him in public , and refused him admission into her house . One evening walking , as it was his custom , in the street that she inhabited , he saw ...
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... discovered to us , as it were , a new planet in the poetical hemisphere , " and , like an astronomer , has been accorded by history the privilege of naming his discovery . The word " meta- physical , " which Johnson's Dictionary ( 1755 ) ...
... discovered to us , as it were , a new planet in the poetical hemisphere , " and , like an astronomer , has been accorded by history the privilege of naming his discovery . The word " meta- physical , " which Johnson's Dictionary ( 1755 ) ...
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The Satirical Letters of St Jerome | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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