Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones |
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... English book . She particularly attended at the same time to the cultivation of his memory , by making him learn and repcat some of the popular speeches in Shakespeare , and the best of Gay's Fables . If , from the subsequent eminence ...
... English book . She particularly attended at the same time to the cultivation of his memory , by making him learn and repcat some of the popular speeches in Shakespeare , and the best of Gay's Fables . If , from the subsequent eminence ...
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... English books as she deemed adapted to his taste and capacity . The juve- nile poems of Pope , and Dryden's Translation of the Æneid , afforded him incessant delight , and excited his poetical talents , which displayed themselves in the ...
... English books as she deemed adapted to his taste and capacity . The juve- nile poems of Pope , and Dryden's Translation of the Æneid , afforded him incessant delight , and excited his poetical talents , which displayed themselves in the ...
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... English verse several of the epistles of Ovid , all the pastorals of Virgil , and composed a dramatic piece on the story of Meleager , which he denominated a tragedy ; and it was acted , during the vacation , by some of his school ...
... English verse several of the epistles of Ovid , all the pastorals of Virgil , and composed a dramatic piece on the story of Meleager , which he denominated a tragedy ; and it was acted , during the vacation , by some of his school ...
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... English poems , composed by Mr. Jones , at Harrow , was presented by him to his friend Parnell , in 1763. The first and longest of the collection , containing more than three hundred and thirty lines , is entitled Prolusions , and is a ...
... English poems , composed by Mr. Jones , at Harrow , was presented by him to his friend Parnell , in 1763. The first and longest of the collection , containing more than three hundred and thirty lines , is entitled Prolusions , and is a ...
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... English Doric . Spenser speaks in his own dialect , and , as the poet says , Masks in the roughest veil the sweetest song . In the original essay , Mr. Jones gives the prize to Tityrus , or Virgil ; but , in the latter , Theocritus ...
... English Doric . Spenser speaks in his own dialect , and , as the poet says , Masks in the roughest veil the sweetest song . In the original essay , Mr. Jones gives the prize to Tityrus , or Virgil ; but , in the latter , Theocritus ...
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