Table Talk: Or, Original Essays on Men and Manners, Volumen1H. Colburn, 1824 - 401 páginas |
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... pains , you are still far short of the mark . Patience grows out of the endless pursuit , and turns it into a luxury . A streak in a flower , a wrinkle in a leaf , a tinge in a cloud , a stain in an old wall or ruin grey , are seized ...
... pains , you are still far short of the mark . Patience grows out of the endless pursuit , and turns it into a luxury . A streak in a flower , a wrinkle in a leaf , a tinge in a cloud , a stain in an old wall or ruin grey , are seized ...
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... pains were thrown away to little purpose , -yet not altogether in vain if it taught me to see good in every thing , and to know that there is nothing vulgar in nature seen with the eye of science or of true art . Refinement creates ...
... pains were thrown away to little purpose , -yet not altogether in vain if it taught me to see good in every thing , and to know that there is nothing vulgar in nature seen with the eye of science or of true art . Refinement creates ...
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... pains to do my best . If art was long , I thought that life was so too at that moment . I got in the general effect the first day ; and pleased and surprised enough I was at my success . The rest was a work of time - of weeks and months ...
... pains to do my best . If art was long , I thought that life was so too at that moment . I got in the general effect the first day ; and pleased and surprised enough I was at my success . The rest was a work of time - of weeks and months ...
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... pains . My father was willing to sit as long as I pleased ; for there is a natural desire in the mind of man to sit for one's picture , to be the object of continued at- tention , to have one's likeness multiplied ; and besides his ...
... pains . My father was willing to sit as long as I pleased ; for there is a natural desire in the mind of man to sit for one's picture , to be the object of continued at- tention , to have one's likeness multiplied ; and besides his ...
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... pains are the bead - roll that he tells over , and piously worships ; he makes a rosary of the flowers of hope and fancy that VOL . I. E strewed his earliest years . When he begins the last ON THE PAST AND FUTURE . 49.
... pains are the bead - roll that he tells over , and piously worships ; he makes a rosary of the flowers of hope and fancy that VOL . I. E strewed his earliest years . When he begins the last ON THE PAST AND FUTURE . 49.
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