Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryVicesimus Knox J. Johnson, 1808 - 1 páginas An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... seems to have had niore , and all of the genteelest sort ; or to have been better acquainted with mankind . His gaiety , and even his debauchery , made him still the more agreeable to Maecenas : so that it is no wonder that his acquaint ...
... seems to have had niore , and all of the genteelest sort ; or to have been better acquainted with mankind . His gaiety , and even his debauchery , made him still the more agreeable to Maecenas : so that it is no wonder that his acquaint ...
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... seems to produce , without la- bour , what no labour can improve . In tra- gedy he is always struggling after some oc- casion to be comic ; but in comedy he seems to repose , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial to his ...
... seems to produce , without la- bour , what no labour can improve . In tra- gedy he is always struggling after some oc- casion to be comic ; but in comedy he seems to repose , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial to his ...
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... seems not always fully to comprehend his own design . He omits opportunities of instructing or delighting , which the train of his story seems to force upon him , and apparently rejects those exhibitions which would be more affecting ...
... seems not always fully to comprehend his own design . He omits opportunities of instructing or delighting , which the train of his story seems to force upon him , and apparently rejects those exhibitions which would be more affecting ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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