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... wonder ; and I must be allowed to suggest , that the nature of the work , in other respects , as it consists of innumerable detached particulars , all which , even the most minute , I have spared no pains to ascertain with a scrupulous ...
... wonder ; and I must be allowed to suggest , that the nature of the work , in other respects , as it consists of innumerable detached particulars , all which , even the most minute , I have spared no pains to ascertain with a scrupulous ...
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... that were printed , twice over . Dr. Burney's wonder at seeing several pages of his Lives of the Poets , in Manuscript , with scarce a blot or erasure , drew this observation from him . [ M. ] 50 DR . ADAMS [ 1729 business . For an.
... that were printed , twice over . Dr. Burney's wonder at seeing several pages of his Lives of the Poets , in Manuscript , with scarce a blot or erasure , drew this observation from him . [ M. ] 50 DR . ADAMS [ 1729 business . For an.
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... wonder to hear it ascribed to a principle of superstitious mortification ; as we are told by Tursellinus , in his Life of St. Ignatius Loyola , that this intrepid founder of the order of Jesuits , when he arrived at Goa , after having ...
... wonder to hear it ascribed to a principle of superstitious mortification ; as we are told by Tursellinus , in his Life of St. Ignatius Loyola , that this intrepid founder of the order of Jesuits , when he arrived at Goa , after having ...
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... wonder , therefore , that he did not keep his academy above a year and a half . From Mr. Garrick's account he did not appear to have been profoundly reverenced by his pupils . His oddities of manner , and 1736 ] MRS . JOHNSON 67 uncouth ...
... wonder , therefore , that he did not keep his academy above a year and a half . From Mr. Garrick's account he did not appear to have been profoundly reverenced by his pupils . His oddities of manner , and 1736 ] MRS . JOHNSON 67 uncouth ...
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... wonder , when we consider that he was then only in his twenty - ninth year , and had yet been so little in the busy haunts of men . ' 6 Yet , while we admire the poetical excellence of this poem , candour obliges us to allow , that the ...
... wonder , when we consider that he was then only in his twenty - ninth year , and had yet been so little in the busy haunts of men . ' 6 Yet , while we admire the poetical excellence of this poem , candour obliges us to allow , that the ...
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