Table Talk: Or, Original Essays on Men and Manners, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1824 - 401 páginas |
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... living there for any number of years . What would he have said , if any one had told him , he could get as good an idea of the subject of one of his great works from reading the Catalogue of it , as from seeing the picture itself ! Yet ...
... living there for any number of years . What would he have said , if any one had told him , he could get as good an idea of the subject of one of his great works from reading the Catalogue of it , as from seeing the picture itself ! Yet ...
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... living power in the breath of Fame , and in the very names of the great heirs of glory " there were propa- gation too ! " It is something to have a collec- tion of this sort to count upon once a year ; to have one last , lingering look ...
... living power in the breath of Fame , and in the very names of the great heirs of glory " there were propa- gation too ! " It is something to have a collec- tion of this sort to count upon once a year ; to have one last , lingering look ...
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... living bard's are defective in this respect . There is no Sonnet of Milton's on the Restoration of Charles II . There is no Sonnet of Mr. Words- worth's , corresponding to that of " the poet blind and bold , " On the late Massacre in ...
... living bard's are defective in this respect . There is no Sonnet of Milton's on the Restoration of Charles II . There is no Sonnet of Mr. Words- worth's , corresponding to that of " the poet blind and bold , " On the late Massacre in ...
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... living Muse ? What would a linen- draper from Holborn think , if I were to ask him after the clerk of St. Andrew's , the immortal , the forgotten Webster ? His name and his works are no more heard of : though these were written with a ...
... living Muse ? What would a linen- draper from Holborn think , if I were to ask him after the clerk of St. Andrew's , the immortal , the forgotten Webster ? His name and his works are no more heard of : though these were written with a ...
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... a scribbler - flagranti delicto ! Thus the man who can merely read and construe some old author is of a class superior to any living one , and , by parity of reasoning , to those old authors them- selves 98 ON THE ARISTOCRACY OF LETTERS .
... a scribbler - flagranti delicto ! Thus the man who can merely read and construe some old author is of a class superior to any living one , and , by parity of reasoning , to those old authors them- selves 98 ON THE ARISTOCRACY OF LETTERS .
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