Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones, Volume 1J. Hatchard, 1806 - 531 pages |
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... English book . She particularly attended at the same time to the cultivation of his memory , by making him learn and repeat 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 repeat 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 juvenile poems of Pope , and Dryden's Translation of the Eneid , 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 juvenile poems of Pope , and Dryden's Translation of the Eneid , 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 com- posed 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 com- posed 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 poems , and to read the greatest part of the Old Testament in Hebrew , particularly the Book of Job , and the Prophets , which he studied with great attention . In the course of the following summer , by an In SIR WILLIAM JONES .
... English poems , and to read the greatest part of the Old Testament in Hebrew , particularly the Book of Job , and the Prophets , which he studied with great attention . In the course of the following summer , by an In SIR WILLIAM JONES .
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