Table Talk: Or, Original Essays on Men and Manners, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1824 - 401 páginas |
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... learned man might be said to see nature through the glass of time : he alone has a right to be con- sidered as the painter of classical antiquity . Sir Joshua has done him justice in this respect . He could give to the scenery of his ...
... learned man might be said to see nature through the glass of time : he alone has a right to be con- sidered as the painter of classical antiquity . Sir Joshua has done him justice in this respect . He could give to the scenery of his ...
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... learned indifference . He wants , in one respect , grace , form , expression ; but he has every where sense and meaning , perfect costume and propriety . His personages always belong to the class and time represented , and are strictly ...
... learned indifference . He wants , in one respect , grace , form , expression ; but he has every where sense and meaning , perfect costume and propriety . His personages always belong to the class and time represented , and are strictly ...
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... learned air that breathes from the grassy quadrangles and stone walls of halls and colleges - was at home in the Bodleian ; and at Blenheim quite superseded the powdered Ciceroni that attended us , and that pointed in vain with his wand ...
... learned air that breathes from the grassy quadrangles and stone walls of halls and colleges - was at home in the Bodleian ; and at Blenheim quite superseded the powdered Ciceroni that attended us , and that pointed in vain with his wand ...
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... see the use of the learned languages , as he has observed that the greatest proficients in them are rather taciturn than otherwise , and hesitate in their speech more than other people . A ON COFFEE - HOUSE POLITICIANS . 59.
... see the use of the learned languages , as he has observed that the greatest proficients in them are rather taciturn than otherwise , and hesitate in their speech more than other people . A ON COFFEE - HOUSE POLITICIANS . 59.
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... learned and recondite that ever took place , on the com- parative merits of Lord Byron and Gray . A country - gentleman happened to drop in , and thinking to show off in London company , launched into a lofty panegyric on the Bard of 1 ...
... learned and recondite that ever took place , on the com- parative merits of Lord Byron and Gray . A country - gentleman happened to drop in , and thinking to show off in London company , launched into a lofty panegyric on the Bard of 1 ...
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