The Spirit of the Age: Or Contemporary Portraits |
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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 , but from thought to ...
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 , but from thought to ...
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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 to the spirits of
their ...
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 to the spirits of
their ...
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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 yague traditions with fragments and
snatches of old ...
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 yague traditions with fragments and
snatches of old ...
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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 . Mr . Godwin possesses a high
...
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 . Mr . Godwin possesses a high
...
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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 . ” This is a puny and groveling ...
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 . ” This is a puny and groveling ...
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