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... pleasure to know that the expectations which induced you to request me to undertake this work have not been disappointed by the perusal of it . I have the honour to be , MADAM , Your Ladyship's most obedient humble Servant , CLAPHAM ...
... pleasure to know that the expectations which induced you to request me to undertake this work have not been disappointed by the perusal of it . I have the honour to be , MADAM , Your Ladyship's most obedient humble Servant , CLAPHAM ...
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... pleasure , I shall be glad of it ; if not , commit it to the flames ; and believe me to be with truth and sincerity , & c . LEWIS MORRIS . Leaving the genealogical splendor of the family of Sir William Jones to the contemplation of the ...
... pleasure , I shall be glad of it ; if not , commit it to the flames ; and believe me to be with truth and sincerity , & c . LEWIS MORRIS . Leaving the genealogical splendor of the family of Sir William Jones to the contemplation of the ...
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... pleasure of your conversation , I would certainly give you any consolatory advice that lay in my power , and make it my business to convince you what a real share I take in your chagrin . And yet , to reason phi- losophically , I cannot ...
... pleasure of your conversation , I would certainly give you any consolatory advice that lay in my power , and make it my business to convince you what a real share I take in your chagrin . And yet , to reason phi- losophically , I cannot ...
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... pleasure , that you have undertaken to publish a Treatise on Oriental Prosody . As I am convinced that you will perform this task most ably and successfully , I anticipate with satisfaction the mortification of all our European poets ...
... pleasure , that you have undertaken to publish a Treatise on Oriental Prosody . As I am convinced that you will perform this task most ably and successfully , I anticipate with satisfaction the mortification of all our European poets ...
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... pleasure , though I could have wished that it had been more just to your own merit , and less flatter- ing to me . I will not , however , take your expressions literally ; and , notwithstanding your declarations , the taste and judgment ...
... pleasure , though I could have wished that it had been more just to your own merit , and less flatter- ing to me . I will not , however , take your expressions literally ; and , notwithstanding your declarations , the taste and judgment ...
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