Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones, Volume 1J. Hatchard, 1806 - 531 pages |
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... beautiful , and interspersed with great variety of admirable discoveries so very natural to its great author ; but it is more so from the additional advantage of your excellent preface , which I wish much to get published in some of the ...
... beautiful , and interspersed with great variety of admirable discoveries so very natural to its great author ; but it is more so from the additional advantage of your excellent preface , which I wish much to get published in some of the ...
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... beautiful lines of Mesihi : Send me not , O God , to the tomb , before I have embraced my friend : - unless you annex an idea of obscenity to the expression of em- bracing a youth ; a subject which perpetually occurs not only in ...
... beautiful lines of Mesihi : Send me not , O God , to the tomb , before I have embraced my friend : - unless you annex an idea of obscenity to the expression of em- bracing a youth ; a subject which perpetually occurs not only in ...
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... beautiful as Venus herself ; and you have imitated with wonderful success so divine an original . Is it not melancholy to reflect , that not only so much of the compositions of this elegant writer should be lost , but that the little ...
... beautiful as Venus herself ; and you have imitated with wonderful success so divine an original . Is it not melancholy to reflect , that not only so much of the compositions of this elegant writer should be lost , but that the little ...
Page 58
... beautiful Persian Ode , and a Latin translation . Our favourite Hafez deserves indeed to be fed with ambrosia , and I daily discover , with increasing delight , new beau- ties and elegances in him . The principal difficulty attending ...
... beautiful Persian Ode , and a Latin translation . Our favourite Hafez deserves indeed to be fed with ambrosia , and I daily discover , with increasing delight , new beau- ties and elegances in him . The principal difficulty attending ...
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... beautiful . " He was Chancellor of England under Henry the Sixth , and was compelled by the distractions of the times , to take refuge with his pupil Prince Edward in France , where , in an advanced age , he composed his little golden ...
... beautiful . " He was Chancellor of England under Henry the Sixth , and was compelled by the distractions of the times , to take refuge with his pupil Prince Edward in France , where , in an advanced age , he composed his little golden ...
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