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... merit . " " Callimachus is a writer of little excellence . The chief thing to be learned from him is his account of rites and mythology ; which , though desirable to be known for the sake of understanding other parts of ancient authors ...
... merit . " " Callimachus is a writer of little excellence . The chief thing to be learned from him is his account of rites and mythology ; which , though desirable to be known for the sake of understanding other parts of ancient authors ...
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... a Secretary to the British herring fishery , remarkable for an extraordinary number of occasional verses , not of eminent merit . - Boswell , who has passed through life with more observation than Reynolds 4 [ 1780 . THE LIFE OF.
... a Secretary to the British herring fishery , remarkable for an extraordinary number of occasional verses , not of eminent merit . - Boswell , who has passed through life with more observation than Reynolds 4 [ 1780 . THE LIFE OF.
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... merit . ' ence . 999 " " His friend Garrick was so busy in conducting the drama , that they could not have so much intercourse as Mr. Garrick used to profess an anxious wish that there should be . There might , indeed , be something in ...
... merit . ' ence . 999 " " His friend Garrick was so busy in conducting the drama , that they could not have so much intercourse as Mr. Garrick used to profess an anxious wish that there should be . There might , indeed , be something in ...
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... merit of Otway " . " " Snatches of reading , " said he , " will not make a Bentley or a Clarke . They are , however , in a certain degree ad- vantageous . I would put a child into a library , ( where no unfit books are , ) and let him ...
... merit of Otway " . " " Snatches of reading , " said he , " will not make a Bentley or a Clarke . They are , however , in a certain degree ad- vantageous . I would put a child into a library , ( where no unfit books are , ) and let him ...
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... merit of novelty , and to have discovered to us , as it were , a new planet in the poetical hemisphere . It is remarked by Johnson , in considering the works of a poeth , that " amendments are seldom made without some token of a rent ...
... merit of novelty , and to have discovered to us , as it were , a new planet in the poetical hemisphere . It is remarked by Johnson , in considering the works of a poeth , that " amendments are seldom made without some token of a rent ...
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