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... offer an apology . They flow directly from those principles which I im- bibed with my first efforts of reflexion , which have derived force from my subsequent read- ing and observation , which have " grown with my growth , and ...
... offer an apology . They flow directly from those principles which I im- bibed with my first efforts of reflexion , which have derived force from my subsequent read- ing and observation , which have " grown with my growth , and ...
Page 12
... offer to him only what he has seen and purchased before . My own verses are new ; and novelty will generally be acceptable , even when the wares , which are stamped with it , happen to be of inferior value . : Whole in each bosom makes ...
... offer to him only what he has seen and purchased before . My own verses are new ; and novelty will generally be acceptable , even when the wares , which are stamped with it , happen to be of inferior value . : Whole in each bosom makes ...
Page 57
... offer on them . The Arcades is evidently nothing more than the poetic part of an entertainment , the bulk of which was formed of prose dialogue and machinery . But whatever portion it consti- tuted of the piece , it was of sufficient ...
... offer on them . The Arcades is evidently nothing more than the poetic part of an entertainment , the bulk of which was formed of prose dialogue and machinery . But whatever portion it consti- tuted of the piece , it was of sufficient ...
Page 74
... offer , you would have me now consider our whole art and energy of medicine as engaged : since you bid me hail indefinitely , to the height of my desires , of my powers - nay , beyond . You must surely have become of late the very house ...
... offer , you would have me now consider our whole art and energy of medicine as engaged : since you bid me hail indefinitely , to the height of my desires , of my powers - nay , beyond . You must surely have become of late the very house ...
Page 83
... offered to him by the public . He has been importuned in vain to give a second edition of his Essay on Falstaff : and his repeated injunctions have impelled his execu- trix to an indiscriminate destruction of his papers , some of which ...
... offered to him by the public . He has been importuned in vain to give a second edition of his Essay on Falstaff : and his repeated injunctions have impelled his execu- trix to an indiscriminate destruction of his papers , some of which ...
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