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 95
... serve ashamed to confess , that , having man , or even to serve myself . commenced an author , I am most I rejoice to hear that Mr. Throck- abundantly desirous to succeed as morton wishes to be on a more inti- such . I have ( what ...
... serve ashamed to confess , that , having man , or even to serve myself . commenced an author , I am most I rejoice to hear that Mr. Throck- abundantly desirous to succeed as morton wishes to be on a more inti- such . I have ( what ...
Page 98
... serve for it by , take it up again perhaps ten his epitaph : - Ostendent terris hunc tantum fata , neque ultra Esse ... served to rid us ! I will not begin already to tease me of some melancholy moments , for you upon that subject ; but ...
... serve for it by , take it up again perhaps ten his epitaph : - Ostendent terris hunc tantum fata , neque ultra Esse ... served to rid us ! I will not begin already to tease me of some melancholy moments , for you upon that subject ; but ...
Page 361
... serve again to mix with the people , hav- particular eyes , I doubt he has not ing no more durable pre - eminence been rightly informed of their con- than the different grains of sand in struction . I imagine it will be found an hour ...
... serve again to mix with the people , hav- particular eyes , I doubt he has not ing no more durable pre - eminence been rightly informed of their con- than the different grains of sand in struction . I imagine it will be found an hour ...
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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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