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... opinion of M. Racine . Of Bishop Hall's Satires , and of a few of Plato's Dialogues • 217 · 218 17. To Mr. WALPOLE . Concerning the intention of publishing Mr. Bentley's designs for his Poems . Refuses to have his own portrait prefixed ...
... opinion of M. Racine . Of Bishop Hall's Satires , and of a few of Plato's Dialogues • 217 · 218 17. To Mr. WALPOLE . Concerning the intention of publishing Mr. Bentley's designs for his Poems . Refuses to have his own portrait prefixed ...
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... • 435 17. Prevailing opinions respecting the work entitled Historic Doubts . Al- garotti's purchase of an excellent Holbein picture . Curious ta- pestry 438 LETTER Page 18. Our Author's observations upon his own writings ( ix )
... • 435 17. Prevailing opinions respecting the work entitled Historic Doubts . Al- garotti's purchase of an excellent Holbein picture . Curious ta- pestry 438 LETTER Page 18. Our Author's observations upon his own writings ( ix )
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... opinion , that nothing of this nature should be published , and that the letters that pass between particu- lar friends ( if they are written as they ought to be ) can scarce ever be fit to see the light . " What ! not when they express ...
... opinion , that nothing of this nature should be published , and that the letters that pass between particu- lar friends ( if they are written as they ought to be ) can scarce ever be fit to see the light . " What ! not when they express ...
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... opinion . The reason I choose so melancholy a kind of poesie , is because my low spirits and constant ill health ( things in me not imaginary , as you sur- mise , but too real , alas ! and I fear constitutional ) " have tuned my heart ...
... opinion . The reason I choose so melancholy a kind of poesie , is because my low spirits and constant ill health ( things in me not imaginary , as you sur- mise , but too real , alas ! and I fear constitutional ) " have tuned my heart ...
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... opinion of him ; nothing can be easier than that language to any one who knows Latin and French already , and there are few so copious and expressive . " In the same letter he tells him , " that his college has set him a versifying on a ...
... opinion of him ; nothing can be easier than that language to any one who knows Latin and French already , and there are few so copious and expressive . " In the same letter he tells him , " that his college has set him a versifying on a ...
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