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... poem of his , in his own writing , which came to my mother after her mother's death , and , in like manner , de- scended into my possession : it is not therefore without a mournful feeling that I recall to mind the time when it was ...
... poem of his , in his own writing , which came to my mother after her mother's death , and , in like manner , de- scended into my possession : it is not therefore without a mournful feeling that I recall to mind the time when it was ...
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... Poems , Letters , Tales , Translations , Panegyricks , Epigrams , and Epitaphs . 66 " Sunt bona , sunt quædam mediocria , sunt mala plura ; Quæ legis hic aliter non fit , abite , liber . " - MARTIAL . Things good , things bad , things ...
... Poems , Letters , Tales , Translations , Panegyricks , Epigrams , and Epitaphs . 66 " Sunt bona , sunt quædam mediocria , sunt mala plura ; Quæ legis hic aliter non fit , abite , liber . " - MARTIAL . Things good , things bad , things ...
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... poems when I ought to have been following the rich veins of gossip and garrulity . All this , however , is not foreign to my purpose . For I wish not only to begin ab ovo , but to describe every thing relating to the nest . And he who ...
... poems when I ought to have been following the rich veins of gossip and garrulity . All this , however , is not foreign to my purpose . For I wish not only to begin ab ovo , but to describe every thing relating to the nest . And he who ...
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... poem upon Health , and deservedly infamous for another of his productions . He recommended her to try the climate of Lisbon , less for any real or apprehended complaint , than because he perceived the advice would be agreeable ; and ...
... poem upon Health , and deservedly infamous for another of his productions . He recommended her to try the climate of Lisbon , less for any real or apprehended complaint , than because he perceived the advice would be agreeable ; and ...
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... poems ( the Retrospect ) describes this school , and a visit which I made to it , after it had ceased to be one , in the year 1793. You have it , as it was originally written at that time , in the volume which I published with Robert ...
... poems ( the Retrospect ) describes this school , and a visit which I made to it , after it had ceased to be one , in the year 1793. You have it , as it was originally written at that time , in the volume which I published with Robert ...
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