Res Judicatæ

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Birrell Augustine. Res Judicatæ

Res Judicatæ

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PREFACE

SAMUEL RICHARDSON

EDWARD GIBBON

WILLIAM COWPER

GEORGE BORROW

CARDINAL NEWMAN

MATTHEW ARNOLD

WILLIAM HAZLITT

THE LETTERS OF CHARLES LAMB[7]

AUTHORS IN COURT

NATIONALITY

THE REFORMATION

SAINTE-BEUVE

Footnote

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Augustine Birrell

Papers and Essays

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Nor did the men escape; a most grave and learned man writes:

'That Pamela and Clarissa have again "obtained the honour of my perusal," do you say, my dear Mr. Richardson. I assure you I think it an honour to be able to say I have read, and as long as I have eyes will read, all your three most excellent pieces at least once a year, that I am capable of doing it with increasing pleasure which is perpetually doubled by the reflection, that this good man, this charming author, is my friend. I have been this day weeping over the seventh volume of Clarissa as if I had attended her dying bed and assisted at her funeral procession. Oh may my latter end be like hers!'

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