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... poem , and scarcely perhaps a less laborious effort .. You will think I shall never have done with ; divisions and classifications ; for I must remark that public history properly so called may again be divided under two heads ; 1st ...
... poem , and scarcely perhaps a less laborious effort .. You will think I shall never have done with ; divisions and classifications ; for I must remark that public history properly so called may again be divided under two heads ; 1st ...
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... poem . * The same may be said of the books of Samuel as of Joshua . The Cyropædia of Xenophon is evidently a work of imagination . For a specimen of regular biography we can therefore extend our views no further back than the work of ...
... poem . * The same may be said of the books of Samuel as of Joshua . The Cyropædia of Xenophon is evidently a work of imagination . For a specimen of regular biography we can therefore extend our views no further back than the work of ...
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... senates , and whose delicacy might have polished courts . " From a deficiency of materials I conclude it happened that some of Dr. Johnson's lives of the poets are little more than mere critical sketches ; DR . JOHNSON . 55.
... senates , and whose delicacy might have polished courts . " From a deficiency of materials I conclude it happened that some of Dr. Johnson's lives of the poets are little more than mere critical sketches ; DR . JOHNSON . 55.
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Addressed to His Son George Gregory. the poets are little more than mere critical sketches ; yet in this point of view they are excellent , and even where the deficiency of ma terials is most apparent , he contrives to intro- duce some ...
Addressed to His Son George Gregory. the poets are little more than mere critical sketches ; yet in this point of view they are excellent , and even where the deficiency of ma terials is most apparent , he contrives to intro- duce some ...
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... poems , in five volumes , under the sanction of her grandson , the present Marquis of Bute .. But the most elegant production that has ever adorned this walk of literature , is Dr. Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands . It is more ...
... poems , in five volumes , under the sanction of her grandson , the present Marquis of Bute .. But the most elegant production that has ever adorned this walk of literature , is Dr. Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands . It is more ...
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