A Course of English Reading: Adapted to Every Taste and Capacity: with Literary AnecdotesLongman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1850 - 294 стор. |
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... character read the latest article in the " United Service Magazine , " talk at the reading - room door on the contents with some of those portly gentlemen who are to be seen in every town like China jars , or male Caryatides , daily ...
... character read the latest article in the " United Service Magazine , " talk at the reading - room door on the contents with some of those portly gentlemen who are to be seen in every town like China jars , or male Caryatides , daily ...
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... characters , and then " give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name . " On this principle , in reading Ireland's Seven Years of France , from 1815-22 , I cast my eye over the pages of Miller , on which I had marked the corre ...
... characters , and then " give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name . " On this principle , in reading Ireland's Seven Years of France , from 1815-22 , I cast my eye over the pages of Miller , on which I had marked the corre ...
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... may have the figures rudely filled up , giving sub- stantial form and individual character , but still stiff and inanimate ; or , lastly , you may D 4 TO FILL UP OUTLINES . 39 eight volumes, although it comprehends scarcely ...
... may have the figures rudely filled up , giving sub- stantial form and individual character , but still stiff and inanimate ; or , lastly , you may D 4 TO FILL UP OUTLINES . 39 eight volumes, although it comprehends scarcely ...
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... characters , and amuse us with vivid portraiture . This was Johnson's remark on Robertson's his- tories . He said the characters in history must be fiction , unless drawn by those who knew the per- sons , as Sallust and Clarendon . Sir ...
... characters , and amuse us with vivid portraiture . This was Johnson's remark on Robertson's his- tories . He said the characters in history must be fiction , unless drawn by those who knew the per- sons , as Sallust and Clarendon . Sir ...
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... liken the varied and vivid page of Froissart ; but when Hume comes in the character of moth the first , makes havoc of all colours and perspective , - till no eye can distinguish between friend and foe BACON'S MOTHS OF HISTORY . 41.
... liken the varied and vivid page of Froissart ; but when Hume comes in the character of moth the first , makes havoc of all colours and perspective , - till no eye can distinguish between friend and foe BACON'S MOTHS OF HISTORY . 41.
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