Chambers's Cyclopędia of English Literature, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910 - American literature |
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... Young , who , beginning as a Popesque satirist , | proceeded , long after middle age , as the un- rhyming author of those sombre and declamatory Night Thoughts which at once reflected and dominated the brooding unrest of the age . To ...
... Young , who , beginning as a Popesque satirist , | proceeded , long after middle age , as the un- rhyming author of those sombre and declamatory Night Thoughts which at once reflected and dominated the brooding unrest of the age . To ...
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... young men in their own language , that they may thoroughly understand and be masters of it . If any one among us have a facility or purity more than ordinary in his mother tongue , it is owing to chance , or his genius , or any thing ...
... young men in their own language , that they may thoroughly understand and be masters of it . If any one among us have a facility or purity more than ordinary in his mother tongue , it is owing to chance , or his genius , or any thing ...
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... young prodigal heirs , were their hopes of succession three or four hundred years off , who , as short as life is now , think their fathers make very little haste to their graves . would spoil their trade of spending their estates ...
... young prodigal heirs , were their hopes of succession three or four hundred years off , who , as short as life is now , think their fathers make very little haste to their graves . would spoil their trade of spending their estates ...
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... young , if they eternally miscarry by their wilful delays . And besides this , God expects our youthful service and obedience , though we were to live on till old age ; that we may die young is not the proper , much less the only reason ...
... young , if they eternally miscarry by their wilful delays . And besides this , God expects our youthful service and obedience , though we were to live on till old age ; that we may die young is not the proper , much less the only reason ...
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... young people particularly should not entertain themselves with a lewd picture ; especially when ' tis drawn by a masterly hand . For such a liberty may probably raise those passions which can neither be discharged without trouble , nor ...
... young people particularly should not entertain themselves with a lewd picture ; especially when ' tis drawn by a masterly hand . For such a liberty may probably raise those passions which can neither be discharged without trouble , nor ...
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