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" I took as much delight in reading as you do ; it would be the means of alleviating many tedious hours in my present retirement. But, to my misfortune, I derive no pleasure from such pursuits. "
The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany - Страница 427
1798
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...expressed his regret on this subject to Mr Fox, in the library at Houghton. " I wish," he said, " I took as much delight in reading as you do; it would...the means of alleviating many tedious hours in my present retirement. But, to my misfortune, I derive no pleasure from such pursuits." Lord Oldborough...

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...subject to Mr. Fox, in the library at Houghton. " I wish," he said, " I took as much delight in rending as you do ; it would be the means of alleviating many tedious hours in my present retirement. But, to my misfortune, I derive no pleasure from sn.ch pursuits." Lord Oldborough...

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...a friend reading in his own library at Houghton he expressed this feeling. ".I wish," he said, " I took as much delight in reading as you do ; it would...the means of alleviating many tedious hours in my present retirement ; but, to my misfortune, I derive no pleasure from such pursuits." And again in...

Appreciations and Addresses

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...a friend reading in his own library at Houghton he expressed this feeling. " I wish," he said, " I took as much delight in reading as you do ; it would...the means of alleviating many tedious hours in my present retirement ; but, to my misfortune, I derive no pleasure from such pursuits." And again in...

Appreciations and Addresses

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...a friend reading in his own library at Houghton he expressed this feeling. " I wish," he said, " I took as much delight in reading as you do ; it would...the means of alleviating many tedious hours in my present retirement ; but, to my misfortune, I derive no pleasure from such pursuits." And again in...

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...a friend reading in his own library at Houghton, he expressed this feeling : "I wish," he said, "I took as much delight in reading as you do. It would...the means of alleviating many tedious hours in my present retirement, but, to my misfortune, I derive no pleasure from such pursuits." And again, in...

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...a friend reading in his own library at Haughton, he expressed this feeling. ' I wish,' he said, ' I took as much delight in reading as you do. It would...the means of alleviating many tedious hours in my retirement; but, to my misfortune, I derive no pleasure from such fortune. I derive no pleasure from...

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...circumstances, give us reason to doubt. He one day remarked to a friend in the library at Houghton : " I wish I took as much delight in reading as you do ; it would be the means of alleviating many tedious hours, but, to my misfortune, I derive no pleasure from such pursuits." His son Horace also informs us that...




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