An Oxford Anthology of English ProseArnold Whitridge, John Wendell Dodds, Howard Foster Lowry Oxford University Press, 1935 - 950 pages |
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Page 359
... pleased . Our important Scene must not appear till after his death . But I have a great mind to send over to London a little Sketch of my Reception at Ferney , of the splendid manner in which M. de Voltaire lives and of the brilliant ...
... pleased . Our important Scene must not appear till after his death . But I have a great mind to send over to London a little Sketch of my Reception at Ferney , of the splendid manner in which M. de Voltaire lives and of the brilliant ...
Page 405
... pleased , but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to be pleased . There is in these feelings enough to resist a host of arguments ; and I should be the less able to combat them successfully , as I am ...
... pleased , but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to be pleased . There is in these feelings enough to resist a host of arguments ; and I should be the less able to combat them successfully , as I am ...
Page 445
... pleased to express himself ) , to whom he had occasionally been beholden for a loan . Their multitudes did no way disconcert him . He rather took a pride in num- bering them ; and , with Comus , seemed pleased to be ' stocked with so ...
... pleased to express himself ) , to whom he had occasionally been beholden for a loan . Their multitudes did no way disconcert him . He rather took a pride in num- bering them ; and , with Comus , seemed pleased to be ' stocked with so ...
Contents
Le Morte Darthur | 1 |
Roger Ascham 15151568 | 19 |
Sir Thomas North | 29 |
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