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 104
... true reasoning if my health had allowed me to study ; does resolve itself : that therefore but I have been obliged to estrange what contradicts common sense is in myself from books for some months itself absurd , however subtle the ar ...
... true reasoning if my health had allowed me to study ; does resolve itself : that therefore but I have been obliged to estrange what contradicts common sense is in myself from books for some months itself absurd , however subtle the ar ...
Page 109
... true , that liv- Blacklock's new book . * I was very ing authors are often hardly dealt much surprised to see my name pre- with by their contemporaries ; wit- fixed to the dedication , as he never ness Milton , Collins the poet , and ...
... true , that liv- Blacklock's new book . * I was very ing authors are often hardly dealt much surprised to see my name pre- with by their contemporaries ; wit- fixed to the dedication , as he never ness Milton , Collins the poet , and ...
Page 112
... true critic ; sen- From the questions your lady- sibility , and a lively imagination , are ship is pleased to propose , in the con- the qualities which alone constitute clusion of your letter , as well as a true taste for sentimental ...
... true critic ; sen- From the questions your lady- sibility , and a lively imagination , are ship is pleased to propose , in the con- the qualities which alone constitute clusion of your letter , as well as a true taste for sentimental ...
Contents
VOL IV | 1 |
From the same to the Duchess of Portland | 7 |
From the same to the same | 13 |
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