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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... write a long letter upon paper means by their little desires ; if she ungilded and unadorned ; but truth , had said their little stomachs , it had as your friend , may visit you in a been some help to their economy . dishabille ; and by ...
... write a long letter upon paper means by their little desires ; if she ungilded and unadorned ; but truth , had said their little stomachs , it had as your friend , may visit you in a been some help to their economy . dishabille ; and by ...
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... write soon , and to write often , and and all satisfaction is sincerely wish- to write long letters ; which I hope ed you by , dear sir , your , & c . LETTER XXXII . Dr. Johnson to Mr. Elphinston . Dear sir , I CANNOT but confess the ...
... write soon , and to write often , and and all satisfaction is sincerely wish- to write long letters ; which I hope ed you by , dear sir , your , & c . LETTER XXXII . Dr. Johnson to Mr. Elphinston . Dear sir , I CANNOT but confess the ...
Page 307
... write again to Mr. quire some application at first . For , Between friends , the com- if an artist , instead of endeavouring mon forms of the world , in writing to surmount the difficulties which letter for letter , need not be observ ...
... write again to Mr. quire some application at first . For , Between friends , the com- if an artist , instead of endeavouring mon forms of the world , in writing to surmount the difficulties which letter for letter , need not be observ ...
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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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Aberdeen acquaintance Adieu agreeable amusement Anna Seward beautiful believe Bishop of Gloucester bless Bradshaigh character charming Cicero comfort cousin dear friend dear sir delight desire Duchess of Portland Edward Gibbon Elizabeth Montagu England expect favour fear feel genius give glad grace happy haps hear heart Henry Kirke White honour hope Horace Walpole John Newton Johnson Jones kind lady ladyship Lausanne least less LETTER live London lord Lord Althorpe madam ment mind miss Montagu morning nature ness never night obliged occasion Olney perhaps person pleased pleasure poem poet poetry poor pray present racter reason received sensible sent Sir William Jones soon spirits suppose sure tell thank ther thing thought tion town truth verse Virgil William Unwin wish woman word write young