Curiosities of LiteratureBaudry, 1835 - 447 páginas |
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... served as his secretary , and who al- ways speaks of his master in the third person . But he must have written what Montaigne dictated , as the ex- pressions and the egotisms are all Montaigne's . The bad writing and orthography made it ...
... served as his secretary , and who al- ways speaks of his master in the third person . But he must have written what Montaigne dictated , as the ex- pressions and the egotisms are all Montaigne's . The bad writing and orthography made it ...
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... serving person . ' Mr Malone attempts to show that Spen- ser had a small pension ; but the poet's querulous verses ... served ; and another work , Fleta Minor , or the Laws of Art and Nature in knowing the Bodies of Metals , & c . , by ...
... serving person . ' Mr Malone attempts to show that Spen- ser had a small pension ; but the poet's querulous verses ... served ; and another work , Fleta Minor , or the Laws of Art and Nature in knowing the Bodies of Metals , & c . , by ...
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... served as the model of the celebrated papers of Steele . There he also composed his Jure Divino . Wicquefort's curious work on Ambassadors ' is dated from his prison , where he had been confined for state affairs . He softened the ...
... served as the model of the celebrated papers of Steele . There he also composed his Jure Divino . Wicquefort's curious work on Ambassadors ' is dated from his prison , where he had been confined for state affairs . He softened the ...
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... served as an amulet to charm away the demons of literary destruction . One of the most in- teresting is the fate of Aristotle's library ; he who by a Greek term was first saluted as a collector of books ! his works have come down to us ...
... served as an amulet to charm away the demons of literary destruction . One of the most in- teresting is the fate of Aristotle's library ; he who by a Greek term was first saluted as a collector of books ! his works have come down to us ...
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... served for the English reader in the elegant versions of Cumberland . Even of Eschylus , Sophocles , and Euri- pides , who each wrote about one hundred dramas , seven only have been preserved , and nineteen of Euripides . Of the one ...
... served for the English reader in the elegant versions of Cumberland . Even of Eschylus , Sophocles , and Euri- pides , who each wrote about one hundred dramas , seven only have been preserved , and nineteen of Euripides . Of the one ...
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