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... labour , that would have overwhelmed ordinary men , † were borne by him as the light amusement of a summer day ; and we see him when the bow he alone could bend was broken , and its now useless strings were trailing on the ground . At ...
... labour , that would have overwhelmed ordinary men , † were borne by him as the light amusement of a summer day ; and we see him when the bow he alone could bend was broken , and its now useless strings were trailing on the ground . At ...
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... labours preserved . I remember well the spot where I read these volumes for the first time . It was beneath a huge platanus tree , in the ruins of what had been intended for an old fashioned arbour in the garden I have mentioned . The ...
... labours preserved . I remember well the spot where I read these volumes for the first time . It was beneath a huge platanus tree , in the ruins of what had been intended for an old fashioned arbour in the garden I have mentioned . The ...
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... , that he attached much less importance to his literary labours or reputation , than to his bodily sports , exercises , and social Warton as the oldest specimen of English verse ; a. amusements . 1838. ] 11 Lockhart's Life of Scott .
... , that he attached much less importance to his literary labours or reputation , than to his bodily sports , exercises , and social Warton as the oldest specimen of English verse ; a. amusements . 1838. ] 11 Lockhart's Life of Scott .
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... labour of years , and presented with an easy unaffected propriety and elegance of ar- gument and expression , which it may be doubted if he ever materially surpassed in the happiest of his imaginative narra- tives . I well remember when ...
... labour of years , and presented with an easy unaffected propriety and elegance of ar- gument and expression , which it may be doubted if he ever materially surpassed in the happiest of his imaginative narra- tives . I well remember when ...
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... labour , nor in continual contact with the affairs of the world , ever did seem aware that he was making any extraordinary exertion . The machine , thus gigantic in its impetus , moved so easily that the master had no perception of the ...
... labour , nor in continual contact with the affairs of the world , ever did seem aware that he was making any extraordinary exertion . The machine , thus gigantic in its impetus , moved so easily that the master had no perception of the ...
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