The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century: Critical Reviews. The Second Funeral of NapoleonKnight & Millet, 1901 - 418 páginas |
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... nature repulsive , and only made interesting by the wonderful skill and truth to nature in the painter ; but I contend that there is in most of them that sprink- ling of the better nature , which , like holy water , chases away and ...
... nature repulsive , and only made interesting by the wonderful skill and truth to nature in the painter ; but I contend that there is in most of them that sprink- ling of the better nature , which , like holy water , chases away and ...
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... nature — a sort of dallying with the devil- a fluxionary art of combining courage and cowardice , as when a man snuffs a candle with his fingers for the first time , or better still , perhaps , like that trembling daring with which a ...
... nature — a sort of dallying with the devil- a fluxionary art of combining courage and cowardice , as when a man snuffs a candle with his fingers for the first time , or better still , perhaps , like that trembling daring with which a ...
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... Nature's gentlemen , and hang your aristocrats . " And so indeed Nature does make some gentlemen a few here and there . But Art makes most . Good birth , that is , good handsome well- formed fathers and mothers , nice cleanly nursery ...
... Nature's gentlemen , and hang your aristocrats . " And so indeed Nature does make some gentlemen a few here and there . But Art makes most . Good birth , that is , good handsome well- formed fathers and mothers , nice cleanly nursery ...
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