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Page 12
... 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 ...
Page 50
... 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 embracing a youth , a subject which perpetually occurs not only in Oriental ...
... 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 embracing a youth , a subject which perpetually occurs not only in Oriental ...
Page 54
... 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 59
... 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 beauties and elegancies 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 beauties and elegancies in him . The principal difficulty attending ...
Page 60
... beautiful . " He was Chancellor of England under Henry the VIth , 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 ...
... beautiful . " He was Chancellor of England under Henry the VIth , 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 ...
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