The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits. [By W. Hazlitt.] |
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Fox , with the comfortable double - chin and sleek thriving look of the one , and the quivering lip , the restless eye , and animated acuteness of the other . His eye is quick and lively ; but it glances not from object to object ...
Fox , with the comfortable double - chin and sleek thriving look of the one , and the quivering lip , the restless eye , and animated acuteness of the other . His eye is quick and lively ; but it glances not from object to object ...
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Or his account of the huge spiders that prey on bluebottles and gilded flies in green pathless forests ; or of the great Pacific Ocean , that the natives look upon as the gulf that parts . time from eternity , and that is to waft them ...
Or his account of the huge spiders that prey on bluebottles and gilded flies in green pathless forests ; or of the great Pacific Ocean , that the natives look upon as the gulf that parts . time from eternity , and that is to waft them ...
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There is no look of patch - work and plagiarism , the beggarly copiousness of borrowed wealth ; no tracery - work from worm - eaten manuscripts , from forgotten chronicles , nor piecing out of vague traditions with fragments and ...
There is no look of patch - work and plagiarism , the beggarly copiousness of borrowed wealth ; no tracery - work from worm - eaten manuscripts , from forgotten chronicles , nor piecing out of vague traditions with fragments and ...
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He looks up with unfeigned respect to acknowledged reputation ( but then it must be very well ascertained before he admits it ) —and has a favourite hypothesis that Understanding and Virtue are the same thing .
He looks up with unfeigned respect to acknowledged reputation ( but then it must be very well ascertained before he admits it ) —and has a favourite hypothesis that Understanding and Virtue are the same thing .
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The first looks at the numberless volumes of a library , and says , “ All these are mine : " the other points to a single volume ( perhaps it may be an immortal one ) and says , My name is written on the back of it .
The first looks at the numberless volumes of a library , and says , “ All these are mine : " the other points to a single volume ( perhaps it may be an immortal one ) and says , My name is written on the back of it .
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