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The Juvenile Plutarch:: Containing Accounts of the Lives of Celebrated ... - Page 190
1806 - 204 pages
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...really thenir selves, as they cannot believe me to be more than what J fain. I had my time, readers, as others have, who have good learning bestowed upon...methought I loved indeed, but as my age then was, so I understood them ; others were the smooth elegiac poets, whereof the schools are not scarce, whom...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...such really themselves, as they cannot believe me to be more than what I fain. I had my time, readers, as others have' who have good learning bestowed upon...grave orators and historians, whose matter methought J loved indeed, but as my age then was, so I understood them ; others were the smooth elegiac poets,...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...really then> selves, as they cannot believe me to be more than what I fain. .1 had my time, readers, as others have who have good learning bestowed upon...and, as the manner is, was not unstudied in those authprs which are most commended ; whereof some were grave orators ami historians, -whose matter methought...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...such really themselves, as they cannot believe me to be more than what I fain. I had my time, readers, as others have, who have good learning bestowed upon...to those places, where the opinion was, it might be soouest attained ; and as the manner is, was not unstudied in those authors which are most commended...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 pages
...really themselves, as they cannot believe me to be more than what I feign. I had my time, readers, as others have who have good learning bestowed upon...methought I loved indeed, but as my age then was, so I understood them. Others were the smooth elegiac poets, whereof the schools are not scarce, whom...
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The Juvenile Plutarch: Containing Accounts of the Lives of ..., Volume 2

1820 - 230 pages
...some early specimens of an admirable genius for poetry. At the age of seventeen he was admitted Sizer of Christ's College, in Cambridge, under the tuition...opinion was it might be soonest attained, and as the mariner is, was not unstudied in those authors which are most commended : whereof some were grave orators...
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The juvenile Plutarch, accounts of the lives of celebrated children ..., Part 2

1820 - 224 pages
...some early specimens of an admirable genius for poetry. At the age of seventeen lie was admitted Sizer of Christ's College, in Cambridge, under the tuition...to be sent to those places where the opinion was it night be soonest attained, and as the inner is, was not unstudied in those authors which are most commended...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 85

1820 - 608 pages
...was it might soonest be attained, and as the manner is, was not unstudied in those authers which arc most commended, whereof some were grave orators and...historians, whose matter me-thought I loved indeed, but a« my age then was so I understood them. Others were the smooth elegiac pouts, whereof the schools...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...really themselves, as they cannot believe me to be more than what I fain. I had my time, readers,, as others have who have good learning bestowed upon...some were grave orators and historians, whose matter inethought I loved indeed, but as my age then was, so I understood them ; others were the smooth elegiac...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...really themselves, as they cannot believe me to be more than what I fain. • I had my time, readers, as others have, who have good learning bestowed upon...methought I loved indeed, but as my age then was, so I understood them ; others were the smooth elegiac poets, whereof the schools are not scarce, whom...
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