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... turns to Cambridge , and takes a degree in civil law ; during that interval he corresponds with Mr. West LETTER · 1. From Mr. WEST . His spirits not as yet improved by country air . Has begun to read Tacitus , but does not relish him 2 ...
... turns to Cambridge , and takes a degree in civil law ; during that interval he corresponds with Mr. West LETTER · 1. From Mr. WEST . His spirits not as yet improved by country air . Has begun to read Tacitus , but does not relish him 2 ...
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... turn of their genius , but of their temper . In a word , Mr. Gray will be- come his own biographer , both in this and the rest of the Sections , into which I divide this work . By which means , and by the assistance of a few notes which ...
... turn of their genius , but of their temper . In a word , Mr. Gray will be- come his own biographer , both in this and the rest of the Sections , into which I divide this work . By which means , and by the assistance of a few notes which ...
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... turning your face ? Your friends , indeed , may be happy in you , but what will you do with your classic companions ? An inn of court is as horrid a place as a college , and a moot case is * I suspect that Mr. West mistook his ...
... turning your face ? Your friends , indeed , may be happy in you , but what will you do with your classic companions ? An inn of court is as horrid a place as a college , and a moot case is * I suspect that Mr. West mistook his ...
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... turns from me her rosy face away . * Almost all Tibullus's elegy is imitated in this little piece , from whence his transition to Mr. Pope's letter is very artfully contrived , and bespeaks a degree of judgment much beyond Mr. West's ...
... turns from me her rosy face away . * Almost all Tibullus's elegy is imitated in this little piece , from whence his transition to Mr. Pope's letter is very artfully contrived , and bespeaks a degree of judgment much beyond Mr. West's ...
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... turn of his epistle would not admit so ludicrous a thought , as it was in its place in Mr. Pope's familiar letter ; so that we see , young as he was , he had obtained the art of judiciously selecting , one of the first provinces of good ...
... turn of his epistle would not admit so ludicrous a thought , as it was in its place in Mr. Pope's familiar letter ; so that we see , young as he was , he had obtained the art of judiciously selecting , one of the first provinces of good ...
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