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... Village .. 27 Edwin and Angelina .. 53 The Haunch of Venison . 67 Retaliation .. Postscript ... The Captivity .. Threnodia Augustalis .. 75 86 89 107 MISCELLANIES . The Double Transformation ... 123 A New Simile ... 128 The Logicians ...
... Village .. 27 Edwin and Angelina .. 53 The Haunch of Venison . 67 Retaliation .. Postscript ... The Captivity .. Threnodia Augustalis .. 75 86 89 107 MISCELLANIES . The Double Transformation ... 123 A New Simile ... 128 The Logicians ...
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... village of Lissoy . Here the boy was taught his letters by a maid - servant , and was sent in his seventh year to a village school kept by an old quartermaster on half - pay , who professed to teach nothing but reading , writing , and ...
... village of Lissoy . Here the boy was taught his letters by a maid - servant , and was sent in his seventh year to a village school kept by an old quartermaster on half - pay , who professed to teach nothing but reading , writing , and ...
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... Village . In his seventeenth year , Oliver went up to Trinity College , Dublin , as a sizar . The sizars paid nothing for food and tuition , and very little for lodging ; but they had to perform some menial services , from which they ...
... Village . In his seventeenth year , Oliver went up to Trinity College , Dublin , as a sizar . The sizars paid nothing for food and tuition , and very little for lodging ; but they had to perform some menial services , from which they ...
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... Village . In mere diction and versification , this celebrated poem is fully equal , perhaps superior to the Trav- eller ; and it is generally preferred to the Trav- eller by that large class of readers who think , with Bayes in the ...
... Village . In mere diction and versification , this celebrated poem is fully equal , perhaps superior to the Trav- eller ; and it is generally preferred to the Trav- eller by that large class of readers who think , with Bayes in the ...
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... Village bears a great resemblance . It is made up of incongruous parts . The village in its happy days , is a true English village . The vil- lage in its decay , is an Irish village . The felicity and the misery which Goldsmith has ...
... Village bears a great resemblance . It is made up of incongruous parts . The village in its happy days , is a true English village . The vil- lage in its decay , is an Irish village . The felicity and the misery which Goldsmith has ...
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