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... write is easy ; but to write on thee , Truth would be thought to forfeit modesty . He'll seem a Poet that shall speak but true ; Hyperbole's in others , are thy due . Like a most servile flatterer he will show Though he write truth ...
... write is easy ; but to write on thee , Truth would be thought to forfeit modesty . He'll seem a Poet that shall speak but true ; Hyperbole's in others , are thy due . Like a most servile flatterer he will show Though he write truth ...
Page 271
... write , the Indian King , who saw me , believed that he could write as well as I. Whereupon I wrote a word and gave it to him to copy , which he did with more exactness than any European could have done , that was illiterate . It was so ...
... write , the Indian King , who saw me , believed that he could write as well as I. Whereupon I wrote a word and gave it to him to copy , which he did with more exactness than any European could have done , that was illiterate . It was so ...
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... write tol- erably well also ; imagine , then , that Mr. F. B. is still here , and simply write down what you would say to him . . . . Although he is a man of learning and taste , yet I am sure he will read your letters with pleasure ...
... write tol- erably well also ; imagine , then , that Mr. F. B. is still here , and simply write down what you would say to him . . . . Although he is a man of learning and taste , yet I am sure he will read your letters with pleasure ...
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