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He made what may be called the provincial's “ grand tour " of London , visited the theatres , coffee - houses , and auctionrooms , heard all the popular preachers , and was introduced to the studios of Reynolds and Gainsborough ; he met ...
He made what may be called the provincial's “ grand tour " of London , visited the theatres , coffee - houses , and auctionrooms , heard all the popular preachers , and was introduced to the studios of Reynolds and Gainsborough ; he met ...
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Gray , after reading his Account of Corsica , dismissed op him as a fool who had written well by chance , by the simple expedient of keeping a note - book and recording in it all he saw and heard . Macaulay took up this view and ...
Gray , after reading his Account of Corsica , dismissed op him as a fool who had written well by chance , by the simple expedient of keeping a note - book and recording in it all he saw and heard . Macaulay took up this view and ...
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His schoolmistress , the truth of this anecdote , for she had that he might miss his way , or fall heard it from his mother . So difficult is he kennel , or be run over by a cart , it to obtain an authentic relation of facts , fowed him ...
His schoolmistress , the truth of this anecdote , for she had that he might miss his way , or fall heard it from his mother . So difficult is he kennel , or be run over by a cart , it to obtain an authentic relation of facts , fowed him ...
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Yet i but of Lowe ; and I do not think he was have heard him attribute to these as good a scholar . " extravagant fictions that unsettled turn of He discovered a great ambition to mind which prevented his ever fixing in excel , which ...
Yet i but of Lowe ; and I do not think he was have heard him attribute to these as good a scholar . " extravagant fictions that unsettled turn of He discovered a great ambition to mind which prevented his ever fixing in excel , which ...
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But I have Poetry , of three of the books of Ovid's heard him say , what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of that Metamorphoses , of parts of College , the Reverend William Adams , D.D. , Theocritus ...
But I have Poetry , of three of the books of Ovid's heard him say , what ought to be recorded to the honour of the present venerable master of that Metamorphoses , of parts of College , the Reverend William Adams , D.D. , Theocritus ...
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