“The” Miscellaneous Works: In 5 Volumes, Volum 2Lippincott, 1864 - 218 pàgines |
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... WRITING AND SPEAKING , . 170 XV . - ON INCONSISTENCIES IN SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS ' DISCOURSES , 192 XVI . THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED , XVII . - ON QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY TO SUCCESS IN LIFE , XVIII . - MADAME PASTA AND MADEMOISELLE MARS ...
... WRITING AND SPEAKING , . 170 XV . - ON INCONSISTENCIES IN SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS ' DISCOURSES , 192 XVI . THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED , XVII . - ON QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY TO SUCCESS IN LIFE , XVIII . - MADAME PASTA AND MADEMOISELLE MARS ...
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... write it upon parchment ! " He once mounted a horse which a horse - dealer was showing off near a coffee - house at the bottom of St. James's street , rode it to Tattersall's , and sold it , and walked quietly back to the spot from ...
... write it upon parchment ! " He once mounted a horse which a horse - dealer was showing off near a coffee - house at the bottom of St. James's street , rode it to Tattersall's , and sold it , and walked quietly back to the spot from ...
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... writing - to touch the seal , and yet not dare to break it open - is provoking indeed - the climax of amorous and gen- * Shylock's lamentation over the loss of his daughter and his ducats , " is another case in point . tlemanly distress ...
... writing - to touch the seal , and yet not dare to break it open - is provoking indeed - the climax of amorous and gen- * Shylock's lamentation over the loss of his daughter and his ducats , " is another case in point . tlemanly distress ...
Pàgina 37
... writer , for in- stance , would think of comparing himself with Burke ? Yet would it not have been equal presumption or egotism in him to fancy himself equal to those who had gone before him — Boling- broke or Johnson or Sir William ...
... writer , for in- stance , would think of comparing himself with Burke ? Yet would it not have been equal presumption or egotism in him to fancy himself equal to those who had gone before him — Boling- broke or Johnson or Sir William ...
Pàgina 38
... writer of an ephemeral production may be as much dazzled with it as the public ; it may sparkle in his own eyes for a moment , and be soon forgotten by every one else . But no one can anticipate the suffrages of posterity . Every man ...
... writer of an ephemeral production may be as much dazzled with it as the public ; it may sparkle in his own eyes for a moment , and be soon forgotten by every one else . But no one can anticipate the suffrages of posterity . Every man ...
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