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... true to the pure domestic feeling that shines through his verse - employed in a father's duty of en- couraging his child's taste for ennobling studies . He had given the boy an astrolabe , and the little treatise was to show him how to ...
... true to the pure domestic feeling that shines through his verse - employed in a father's duty of en- couraging his child's taste for ennobling studies . He had given the boy an astrolabe , and the little treatise was to show him how to ...
Page 490
... true love of none , and the just laughter of all ? ” He urged for the Court idlers , in words characteristic of the mind that made him , next to Shakespeare , foremost among English dramatists , — ' That these vain joys in which their ...
... true love of none , and the just laughter of all ? ” He urged for the Court idlers , in words characteristic of the mind that made him , next to Shakespeare , foremost among English dramatists , — ' That these vain joys in which their ...
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... true limbs of it . It is not merely variety that they supply . It is completeness . It is true that the Man of the Hill's story is not a part of the direct mechanism of the plot ; but it is equally true that it is a vital part of the ...
... true limbs of it . It is not merely variety that they supply . It is completeness . It is true that the Man of the Hill's story is not a part of the direct mechanism of the plot ; but it is equally true that it is a vital part of the ...
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