National Review, Том 11Robert Theobold, 1860 |
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... living Frenchmen . Perhaps , in his own way , he has no rival . No one in this generation has come so near the sprightliness , the worldly shrewdness , and the drollery of Voltaire . There are many passages in his tales which , without ...
... living Frenchmen . Perhaps , in his own way , he has no rival . No one in this generation has come so near the sprightliness , the worldly shrewdness , and the drollery of Voltaire . There are many passages in his tales which , without ...
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... living . I should go to sleep in the Senate , and should be apt , from mere force of habit , to shoot my soldiers if I saw them in the uniform I have so often attacked . " The character of Hadji - Stavros is well kept up throughout the ...
... living . I should go to sleep in the Senate , and should be apt , from mere force of habit , to shoot my soldiers if I saw them in the uniform I have so often attacked . " The character of Hadji - Stavros is well kept up throughout the ...
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... living in a country home and showering bless- ings on the peasants around them , and Lello interrupting her to boast that they will eclipse all their friends and acquaintance at balls and suppers . The lovers separate , and writing is ...
... living in a country home and showering bless- ings on the peasants around them , and Lello interrupting her to boast that they will eclipse all their friends and acquaintance at balls and suppers . The lovers separate , and writing is ...
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... living . He hears the count to the end of a second speech , in which he is told that he must either give up Tolla at once , or make a promise so deliberate , so solemn , and so sacred , that there can be no receding from it . The mode ...
... living . He hears the count to the end of a second speech , in which he is told that he must either give up Tolla at once , or make a promise so deliberate , so solemn , and so sacred , that there can be no receding from it . The mode ...
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... living Italy . The country would not suffer from it more or less than a veteran suffers from a ball that his surgeon has for- gotten to extract . " Good - humoured contempt can scarcely go further than this . 66 So far as the style of ...
... living Italy . The country would not suffer from it more or less than a veteran suffers from a ball that his surgeon has for- gotten to extract . " Good - humoured contempt can scarcely go further than this . 66 So far as the style of ...
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