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Life of Torquato Tasso: With an Historical and Critical Account of His Writings - Page 140
by John Black - 1810
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...celebrate ; 1 thought with myself, by every instinct and presage of nature, which is not wont to be false, that what emboldened them to this task, might, with...elegance, was my share, would herein best appear, antl best value itself, by how much more wisely, and with more love of virtue I should choose (let...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...rnight, with such diligence as they used, embolden lj>e; and that what judgment, wit, or elegance, my share, would herein best appear, and best value...more wisely, and with more love of virtue I should choose (let rude ears be absent) the object of not unlike praises : for albeit these thoughts to some...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...myself, by every in-. ttinct and presage of nature, which is not wont to be false, that what emboidened them to this task, might, with such diligence as they used, embolden and that what judgment, wit, or elegance, was my share, would herein best appear, ami best value itself,...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...celebrate ; I thought with myself by every instinct and presage of nature, which is not wont to be false, that what emboldened them to this task, might with...more wisely, and with more love of virtue I should choose (let rude ears be absent) the object of not unlike praises : for albeit these thoughts to some...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...celebrate ; 1 thought with myself, by every instinct and presage of nature, which is not wont to be false, that what emboldened them to this task, might, with...would herein best appear, and best value itself, by hovy much more wisely, and with more love of virtue I should choose (let rude ears be ab* sent) the...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...celebrate, I thought with myself by every instinct and presage of nature, which is not wont to be false, that what emboldened them to this task might with...diligence as they used embolden me; and that what judgement, wit, or elegance was my share would herein best appear and best value itself, by how much...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...celebrate ; I thought with myself by every instinct and presage of nature, which is not wont to be false, that what emboldened them to this task, might, with...more wisely, and with more love of virtue I should choose, let rude ears be absent, the object of not unlike praises. For, albeit these thoughts to some...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...celebrate, I thought with myself by every instinct and presage of nature which is not wont to be false, that what emboldened them to this task, might with...more wisely, and with more love of virtue I should choose, let rude ears be absent, the object of not unlike praises ; for albeit these thoughts to some...
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The Prose Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...celebrate; I thought with myself by efery instinct and presage of nature, which is not wont to be false, that what emboldened them to this task, might with...more wisely, and with more love of virtue I should choose (let rude ears be absent) tbe object of not unlike praises : for albeit these thoughts to some...
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Select Prose Works, Volume 1

John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...celebrate ; I thought with myself by every instinct and presage of nature, which is not wont to be false, that what emboldened them to this task, might with...more wisely, and with more love of virtue I should choose (let rude ears be absent) the object of not unlike praises. For albeit these thoughts to some...
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