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Page 32
... talents was frittered away in compiling and composing for musical collec- tions . There is sufficient evidence both in the edition of Dr. Currie , and in this supplemental volume , that even the genius of Burns could not support him in ...
... talents was frittered away in compiling and composing for musical collec- tions . There is sufficient evidence both in the edition of Dr. Currie , and in this supplemental volume , that even the genius of Burns could not support him in ...
Page 41
... talents for nice disquisition ; he was , besides , very disputatious and irascible ; -and , like the dwarf of Sterne , would have seized the tallest offending grenadier by the tail , could he have reached it . But these formidable ...
... talents for nice disquisition ; he was , besides , very disputatious and irascible ; -and , like the dwarf of Sterne , would have seized the tallest offending grenadier by the tail , could he have reached it . But these formidable ...
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... talents , Swift soon became indispensable to their counsels . The world , as the higher classes call themselves , saw with astonishment an Irish Vicar scarely known , but by a suspi- cion of having written a book * which he durst not ...
... talents , Swift soon became indispensable to their counsels . The world , as the higher classes call themselves , saw with astonishment an Irish Vicar scarely known , but by a suspi- cion of having written a book * which he durst not ...
Contents
Affaires dEspagne Nos 1 to 5 Confédération | 1 |
Reliques of Robert Burns consisting chiefly of original | 19 |
Anecdotes of Painters who have resided or been born | 36 |
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