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... lives ) his very vir- tue may incur some evil imputation , and provoke a thousand murmurs of detraction ; for , believe me , my dear sister , there is no instance of any virtue , or social excellence , which has not excited the envy of ...
... lives ) his very vir- tue may incur some evil imputation , and provoke a thousand murmurs of detraction ; for , believe me , my dear sister , there is no instance of any virtue , or social excellence , which has not excited the envy of ...
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... live ? .... decree .... For on thy voice my fate depends . I send you , as I promised , a prose translation of the Persian ode , together with an attempt at a poetical version of it , which I will hereafter improve . Pray inform me ...
... live ? .... decree .... For on thy voice my fate depends . I send you , as I promised , a prose translation of the Persian ode , together with an attempt at a poetical version of it , which I will hereafter improve . Pray inform me ...
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... lives , I should scarcely find time for the due execution of all the public and private projects which I have in mind . SIR , Mr. Bates to W. Jones , Esq . March 27 , 1771 . Last night I received from Mr. Williams your most ingenious ...
... lives , I should scarcely find time for the due execution of all the public and private projects which I have in mind . SIR , Mr. Bates to W. Jones , Esq . March 27 , 1771 . Last night I received from Mr. Williams your most ingenious ...
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... lives of a most amiable youth ( named Mujnoon , or the Frantic , from his mad passion ) , and his mistress , the beautiful Leili . The loves of Khosro and the adorable Sherin , form the subject of the third poem . Khosro was the twenty ...
... lives of a most amiable youth ( named Mujnoon , or the Frantic , from his mad passion ) , and his mistress , the beautiful Leili . The loves of Khosro and the adorable Sherin , form the subject of the third poem . Khosro was the twenty ...
Page 99
... lives of the Persian poets . I saw a beautiful manuscript of it at Paris .... Farewel . Mr. Jones to J. Wilmot , Esq . MY DEAR WILMOT , Univ . Col. Oxford , June 3 , 1771 . It makes me very happy to hear that my lord chief justice does ...
... lives of the Persian poets . I saw a beautiful manuscript of it at Paris .... Farewel . Mr. Jones to J. Wilmot , Esq . MY DEAR WILMOT , Univ . Col. Oxford , June 3 , 1771 . It makes me very happy to hear that my lord chief justice does ...
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