Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations, Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons: Originally Compiled by the Rev. Vicesimus Knos ...Samuel Walker, 1826 |
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Page 170
... appears dull and gloomy in my tear- and other friends . [ May I have the ful eye , though I do labour to reco ... appear to you with new charms ; nor wished and prayed for by , dear sir , will a tender sigh and silent tear to your ...
... appears dull and gloomy in my tear- and other friends . [ May I have the ful eye , though I do labour to reco ... appear to you with new charms ; nor wished and prayed for by , dear sir , will a tender sigh and silent tear to your ...
Page 188
... appear sin- [ the first requisite of an orator , which gular . However , I have preferred use and labour may improve , but this method , as upon paper I can which nature alone can bestow . That speak without a blush , and be heard my ...
... appear sin- [ the first requisite of an orator , which gular . However , I have preferred use and labour may improve , but this method , as upon paper I can which nature alone can bestow . That speak without a blush , and be heard my ...
Page 216
... appear- zas of their own composition ; but it ed its deficiencies , to attempt a is the painful , though necessary duty somewhat more poetic leave - taking of an editor , by the touchstone of of house , land , and live - stock . My ...
... appear- zas of their own composition ; but it ed its deficiencies , to attempt a is the painful , though necessary duty somewhat more poetic leave - taking of an editor , by the touchstone of of house , land , and live - stock . My ...
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VOL IV | 1 |
From the same to the Duchess of Portland | 7 |
From the same to the same | 13 |
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