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 73
... young man , refinement in all the arts is carried whom I remember a boy . He has to an excess , I suppose it is always a wife , who is young , genteel , and rare . The later Roman writers are handsome . They are Papists , but remarkable ...
... young man , refinement in all the arts is carried whom I remember a boy . He has to an excess , I suppose it is always a wife , who is young , genteel , and rare . The later Roman writers are handsome . They are Papists , but remarkable ...
Page 123
... young man time ; which I confess I was not sor- read the Eneid with taste and at - ry to hear . Seasons of ... Young's " Night Thoughts " in a milla . Perhaps it is not easy to ima- corner , it is time to shut the book , gine more than ...
... young man time ; which I confess I was not sor- read the Eneid with taste and at - ry to hear . Seasons of ... Young's " Night Thoughts " in a milla . Perhaps it is not easy to ima- corner , it is time to shut the book , gine more than ...
Page 124
... Young , my heart No character was ever more fully was broken to think of the poor or more concisely drawn than that ... Young's very just idea of Mrs. Mercer . She particular friends in England , I have is most amiable , and well ...
... Young , my heart No character was ever more fully was broken to think of the poor or more concisely drawn than that ... Young's very just idea of Mrs. Mercer . She particular friends in England , I have is most amiable , and well ...
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