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... happy to hear that your poetical studies go on so briskly , and that you pay your court to the ancient as well as to the modern muses . The decline of classical learning in this country I have long beheld with regret , and endeavored ...
... happy to hear that your poetical studies go on so briskly , and that you pay your court to the ancient as well as to the modern muses . The decline of classical learning in this country I have long beheld with regret , and endeavored ...
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... happy to observe the progress of the press , and will with great pleasure obey any commands of yours re- specting it . Herewith I transmit , not only the bal- lad you desire , but your former extracts from Drummond , & c . , as perhaps ...
... happy to observe the progress of the press , and will with great pleasure obey any commands of yours re- specting it . Herewith I transmit , not only the bal- lad you desire , but your former extracts from Drummond , & c . , as perhaps ...
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... happy to have communicated any remarks that had occurred to me ; though , indeed , they could at best only have been slight and trivial , and therefore hardly worth the attention of one who had considered the subjects so much more ...
... happy to have communicated any remarks that had occurred to me ; though , indeed , they could at best only have been slight and trivial , and therefore hardly worth the attention of one who had considered the subjects so much more ...
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... happy to be favored with a sight of it when we meet . I will not any longer intrude on your time , which will otherwise , I am sure , be much better employed ; for I hope you have by this time finished the troublesome unpoetical ...
... happy to be favored with a sight of it when we meet . I will not any longer intrude on your time , which will otherwise , I am sure , be much better employed ; for I hope you have by this time finished the troublesome unpoetical ...
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... happy to hear that these have succeeded so well as to encourage another edition , with a second volume of Comic Ballads . You do me much honor in the preface , by quoting with so flattering a compliment my account of the pibroch , for ...
... happy to hear that these have succeeded so well as to encourage another edition , with a second volume of Comic Ballads . You do me much honor in the preface , by quoting with so flattering a compliment my account of the pibroch , for ...
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