Half-hours with the Best Authors: With Short Biographical and Critical Notices, Volumes 3-4Porter & Coates[ |
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Page 118
... present at the execution of the Duke of Northumberland , which seems , as it naturally might , to have made a strong impression on him . " A lamentable thing to see a man beneath whom a whole kingdom trembled , to see him in the hands ...
... present at the execution of the Duke of Northumberland , which seems , as it naturally might , to have made a strong impression on him . " A lamentable thing to see a man beneath whom a whole kingdom trembled , to see him in the hands ...
Page 144
... present day can be said to make a study of his works ? His plays , with one or two exceptions , are forgotten and neglected . His tragedies are formed upon the mock - heroic French model , which has no claim to be a reflection of nature ...
... present day can be said to make a study of his works ? His plays , with one or two exceptions , are forgotten and neglected . His tragedies are formed upon the mock - heroic French model , which has no claim to be a reflection of nature ...
Page 373
... present recollections refer , the art of reading was by no means diffused among the class in which I then moved , in the same degree as at present . Many could read ; but the acquirement was not in the same degree as now applied to ...
... present recollections refer , the art of reading was by no means diffused among the class in which I then moved , in the same degree as at present . Many could read ; but the acquirement was not in the same degree as now applied to ...
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DAY SUBJECT 119 Of Improving by good Examples | 5 |
Primitive Christians | 9 |
Summer | 14 |
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