The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 1J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807 |
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... beautiful , and interspersed with great variety of admirable discoveries so very natural to its great author ; but it is more so from the additional advantage of your excellent preface , which I wish much to get published in some of the ...
... beautiful , and interspersed with great variety of admirable discoveries so very natural to its great author ; but it is more so from the additional advantage of your excellent preface , which I wish much to get published in some of the ...
Page 94
... beautiful as Venus herself ; and you have imitated . with wonderful fuccefs fo divine an original . Is it not melancholy to reflect , that not only so much of the compofitions of this elegant writer fhould be loft , but that the little ...
... beautiful as Venus herself ; and you have imitated . with wonderful fuccefs fo divine an original . Is it not melancholy to reflect , that not only so much of the compofitions of this elegant writer fhould be loft , but that the little ...
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... which you contrived to write in the midft of city bustle , during the noife of riotous mobs , and the tumult of a parliamentary election , and to accompany * Appendix , No. 7 . it with a moft beautiful Perfian Ode , and a 101.
... which you contrived to write in the midft of city bustle , during the noife of riotous mobs , and the tumult of a parliamentary election , and to accompany * Appendix , No. 7 . it with a moft beautiful Perfian Ode , and a 101.
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William Jones. it with a moft beautiful Perfian Ode , and a Latin tranflation . Our favourite Hafez de- ferves indeed to be fed with ambrofia , and I daily discover , with increasing delight , new beauties and elegances in him . The prin ...
William Jones. it with a moft beautiful Perfian Ode , and a Latin tranflation . Our favourite Hafez de- ferves indeed to be fed with ambrofia , and I daily discover , with increasing delight , new beauties and elegances in him . The prin ...
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... beautiful . " He was Chancellor of England under Henry the Sixth , and was compelled by the diftrac- tions of the times , to take refuge with his pupil Prince Edward in France , where , in an advanced age , he compofed his little golden ...
... beautiful . " He was Chancellor of England under Henry the Sixth , and was compelled by the diftrac- tions of the times , to take refuge with his pupil Prince Edward in France , where , in an advanced age , he compofed his little golden ...
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