Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Reviewed, Volume 4T. Bensley, 1816 - English literature |
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... things are calculated to excite interest as short in its duration as it is intense in its degree . It is probable that the passion for the literary antiquities of our country may have been on the b VOL . IV . wane for the last year . It ...
... things are calculated to excite interest as short in its duration as it is intense in its degree . It is probable that the passion for the literary antiquities of our country may have been on the b VOL . IV . wane for the last year . It ...
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... it died with them ! A catalogue of Mr. Heber's stupendous library , with a few notes from his capacious and unequalled mind , might do all that is wanted . But when will he have leisure for it ? Or is it to be expected that any thing so vi.
... it died with them ! A catalogue of Mr. Heber's stupendous library , with a few notes from his capacious and unequalled mind , might do all that is wanted . But when will he have leisure for it ? Or is it to be expected that any thing so vi.
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... thing so exquisite , so brilliant , and so unrivalled , should be laid open in broad glare to the unhallowed gaze of the mul- titude ? * The necessity of proving the uses of Bibliography is past . Those uses in the pursuit of solid as ...
... thing so exquisite , so brilliant , and so unrivalled , should be laid open in broad glare to the unhallowed gaze of the mul- titude ? * The necessity of proving the uses of Bibliography is past . Those uses in the pursuit of solid as ...
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... thing , Yet ev'ry poet to himselfe's a king : But where in one they both commixed be , He then is equall with a deitie . This caus'd us all to leave our Helicon , Our double - topped hill , our Citharon , That were nigh ruinated with ...
... thing , Yet ev'ry poet to himselfe's a king : But where in one they both commixed be , He then is equall with a deitie . This caus'd us all to leave our Helicon , Our double - topped hill , our Citharon , That were nigh ruinated with ...
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... thing I sought . Now was the tyme when this was to be done , Or blame my thoughts , because they it begun . This specimen will serve to show that the poetical merit of this piece is at least on a par with the greater number of those in ...
... thing I sought . Now was the tyme when this was to be done , Or blame my thoughts , because they it begun . This specimen will serve to show that the poetical merit of this piece is at least on a par with the greater number of those in ...
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