Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 4S. Walker, 1826 |
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Page 106
... amusement : but tainment , are such as are altogether I am resolved to write no more poe- improper for publication , being writ- try with a view to publication , till I ten in a sort of burlesque humour , see some dawnings of a poetical ...
... amusement : but tainment , are such as are altogether I am resolved to write no more poe- improper for publication , being writ- try with a view to publication , till I ten in a sort of burlesque humour , see some dawnings of a poetical ...
Page 109
... amusement . If a book be capable work , at least in this place , where , of yielding amusement , it will natu- however , the book is very well spo- rally be read ; for no man is an en- ken of , by some who have read it . Iemy to what ...
... amusement . If a book be capable work , at least in this place , where , of yielding amusement , it will natu- however , the book is very well spo- rally be read ; for no man is an en- ken of , by some who have read it . Iemy to what ...
Page 161
... amusement . come and see them ! —And if you do , Tunbridge , in high season , a place I will show you a still more grotesque devoted to amusement . - Time en- figure than either : A sly sinner , tirely at command , though not creeping ...
... amusement . come and see them ! —And if you do , Tunbridge , in high season , a place I will show you a still more grotesque devoted to amusement . - Time en- figure than either : A sly sinner , tirely at command , though not creeping ...
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To the Rev William Unwin | 40 |
To the Rev William Unwin | 42 |
To Lady Hesketh | 46 |
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Aberdeen acquaintance Adieu Æneid agreeable amusement Anna Seward answer archbishop of York beautiful believe Bradshaigh ceive comfort compliments cousin dear friend dear sir dearest death delight desire Duchess of Portland Edward Gibbon Elizabeth Montagu expect favour fear feel friendship genius give glad grace happy haps hear heart honour hope James Boswell James Macpherson John Newton Johnson Joseph Hill kind Lady Hesketh ladyship Lausanne learning least leave less LETTER live London lord Lord Althorpe madam ment Mezentius mind miss morning nature ness never obliged occasion Olney opinion pain perhaps plea pleased pleasure poem poet poetry pray present racter reason received seems sensible sent soon spirits suppose sure taste tell thank ther thing thought tion town truth verse Virgil William Unwin wish word write young