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Western Reserve Studies - Page 29
by Western Reserve University - 1924
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...reward as the noblest dispositions above other things in this life have sometimes preferred: whereof, not to be sensible, when good and fair in one person...any where speaking unworthy things of themselves, or unchaste of those names which before they had extolled ; this effect it wrought with me, from that...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...reward as the noblest dispositions above other things in this life have sometimes preferred: whereof not to be sensible, when good and fair in one person...breast. For by the firm settling of these persuasions, 1 became to my best memory, so much a proficient, that if I found those authors any where speaking...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...reward as the noblest dispositions above other things in this life have sometimes preferred: whereof not to be sensible, when good and fair in one person...and withal an ungentle, and swainish breast. For by thie firm settling of these persuasions, I became to my best memory, so much a proficient, that if...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...reward, as the noblest dispositions above other things in this life have sometimes preferred : whereof not to be sensible when good and fair in one person...persuasions, I became, to my best memory, so much a profit ient, that if I found those authors any where speaking unworthy things of themselves, or unchaste...
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Life of Torquato Tasso: With an Historical and Critical Account of ..., Volume 1

John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...reward as the noblest dispositions above other things in this life have sometimes preferred ; whereof, not to be sensible when good and fair in one person...judgment, and withal an ungentle and swainish breast. but also by Guarini and Pigna. The latter of these wri- CHAP, vi. ters, who is known to a few readers...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 pages
...reward, as the noblest dispositions above other things in this life have sometimes preferred: whereof not to be sensible, when good and fair in one person meet, argues both a gross and shallow judgement, and withal an ungentle and swinish breast. For by the firm settling of these persuasions,...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...reward, as the noblest dispositions above other things in this life have sometimes preferred : whereof not to be sensible, when good and fair in one person...any where speaking unworthy things of themselves, or unchaste of those names which before they had extolled ; this effect it wrought with me, from that...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...reward, as the noblest dispositions above other things in this life have sometimes preferred ; whereof not to be sensible, when good and fair in one person...any where speaking unworthy things of themselves, or unchaste of those names which before they had extolled, this effect it wrought with me ; from that...
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Poetical Works: Paradise lost

John Milton - 1835 - 364 pages
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The Prose Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...reward, as the noblest dispositions above other things in this life have sometimes preferred : whereof not to be sensible when good and fair in one person...any where speaking unworthy things of themselves, or unchaste of those names which before they had extolled; this effect it wrought with me, from that time...
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