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... letters than the extensive dissemination of these standard compositions . They embrace the best models of style in the English Lan- guage . " Boston Daily Advertiser . - " As models of English prose they stand unrivalled , and de- serve ...
... letters than the extensive dissemination of these standard compositions . They embrace the best models of style in the English Lan- guage . " Boston Daily Advertiser . - " As models of English prose they stand unrivalled , and de- serve ...
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... Letter . 154 A Prologue written and spoken by the Poet Laberius ... 160 Prologue to Zobeide . 162 Epilogue spoken by Mr. Lee Lewes .. 164 Epilogue to the Comedy of the Sister . 166 Epilogue to the Good - Natured Man .. 168 Epilogue to ...
... Letter . 154 A Prologue written and spoken by the Poet Laberius ... 160 Prologue to Zobeide . 162 Epilogue spoken by Mr. Lee Lewes .. 164 Epilogue to the Comedy of the Sister . 166 Epilogue to the Good - Natured Man .. 168 Epilogue to ...
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... letters by a maid - servant , and was sent in his seventh year to a village school kept by an old quartermaster on half - pay , who professed to teach nothing but reading , writing , and arithmetic , but who had an inexhaustible fund of ...
... letters by a maid - servant , and was sent in his seventh year to a village school kept by an old quartermaster on half - pay , who professed to teach nothing but reading , writing , and arithmetic , but who had an inexhaustible fund of ...
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... letters purporting to be addressed by a noble- man to his son ; and some very lively and amus- ing Sketches of London Society , in a series of letters purporting to be addressed by a Chinese traveller to his friends . All these works ...
... letters purporting to be addressed by a noble- man to his son ; and some very lively and amus- ing Sketches of London Society , in a series of letters purporting to be addressed by a Chinese traveller to his friends . All these works ...
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... letters , but which a man of letters , who is also a man of the world , does his best to conceal , Goldsmith avowed with the simplicity of a child . When he was envious , instead of affecting indif- ference , instead of damning with ...
... letters , but which a man of letters , who is also a man of the world , does his best to conceal , Goldsmith avowed with the simplicity of a child . When he was envious , instead of affecting indif- ference , instead of damning with ...
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