The British Essayists: The AdventurerLittle, Brown, 1866 - English essays |
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... look with little attention upon scenes thus perpetually changing , who cannot catch some of the figures before they are made vulgar by reiterated descriptions . It has been discovered by Sir Isaac Newton , that the distinct and ...
... look with little attention upon scenes thus perpetually changing , who cannot catch some of the figures before they are made vulgar by reiterated descriptions . It has been discovered by Sir Isaac Newton , that the distinct and ...
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... looks about ! Believe me , Sir , It carries a brave form . But ' t is a spirit . Her imagining that as he was so ... look wearily . It is by selecting such little and almost impercepti- ble circumstances that Shakspeare has more ...
... looks about ! Believe me , Sir , It carries a brave form . But ' t is a spirit . Her imagining that as he was so ... look wearily . It is by selecting such little and almost impercepti- ble circumstances that Shakspeare has more ...
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... look with confidence in the face of the person to whom I spoke . About this time my father's elder brother died , and left me an estate of near five hundred pounds per annum . I now bought out the remainder of my time ; and this sudden ...
... look with confidence in the face of the person to whom I spoke . About this time my father's elder brother died , and left me an estate of near five hundred pounds per annum . I now bought out the remainder of my time ; and this sudden ...
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... look , Cut thy banks to dam thy brook ; Barefoot may no neighbour wade In thy cool streams , wife or maid , When the spawn on stones do lie , To wash their hemp , and spoil the fry . " The glaring picture of Paradise is not , in my ...
... look , Cut thy banks to dam thy brook ; Barefoot may no neighbour wade In thy cool streams , wife or maid , When the spawn on stones do lie , To wash their hemp , and spoil the fry . " The glaring picture of Paradise is not , in my ...
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... looks up , and perceiving that his scale mounted aloft , departs with the shades of night . To make such a use , at so critical a time , of Libra , a mere imaginary sign of the Zodiac , is scarcely justifiable in a poem founded on ...
... looks up , and perceiving that his scale mounted aloft , departs with the shades of night . To make such a use , at so critical a time , of Libra , a mere imaginary sign of the Zodiac , is scarcely justifiable in a poem founded on ...
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