Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 2Thomas Tegg and others, 1824 |
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... never will attain : and when she has mounted the summit of perfection , derides her follower , who dies in the pursuit . Not therefore to raise expectation , but to repress it , I here lay before your lordship the plan of my undertaking ...
... never will attain : and when she has mounted the summit of perfection , derides her follower , who dies in the pursuit . Not therefore to raise expectation , but to repress it , I here lay before your lordship the plan of my undertaking ...
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... never be afterward dismissed or reformed . Of this kind are the derivatives length from long , strength from strong , darling from dear , breadth from broad , from dry , drought , and from high , height , which Milton , in zeal for ...
... never be afterward dismissed or reformed . Of this kind are the derivatives length from long , strength from strong , darling from dear , breadth from broad , from dry , drought , and from high , height , which Milton , in zeal for ...
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... never ridiculous : Junius is always full of knowledge ; but his variety distracts his judgment , and his learning is very frequently disgraced by his absurdities . he The votaries of the northern muses will not per- haps easily restrain ...
... never ridiculous : Junius is always full of knowledge ; but his variety distracts his judgment , and his learning is very frequently disgraced by his absurdities . he The votaries of the northern muses will not per- haps easily restrain ...
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... never read them ; and many I have inserted , because they may perhaps exist , though they have escaped my notice : they are , how- ever , to be yet considered as resting only upon the credit of former dictionaries . Others , which I con ...
... never read them ; and many I have inserted , because they may perhaps exist , though they have escaped my notice : they are , how- ever , to be yet considered as resting only upon the credit of former dictionaries . Others , which I con ...
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... never considered words beyond their popular use , be thought only the jargon of a man willing to magnify his labours , and procure veneration to his studies by involution and obscurity . But every art is 48 PREFACE TO THE.
... never considered words beyond their popular use , be thought only the jargon of a man willing to magnify his labours , and procure veneration to his studies by involution and obscurity . But every art is 48 PREFACE TO THE.
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