The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great Essayists, from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin : with Introduction, Biographical Notices, and Critical NotesW.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1887 |
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... conversation , 190 A meditation upon a broomstick , . Thoughts on various subjects , moral and diverting , 194 • 195 • Humour : false and true , 117 Proper employment of time , 118 WILLIAM SHENSTONE . The vision of Mirza : an Oriental ...
... conversation , 190 A meditation upon a broomstick , . Thoughts on various subjects , moral and diverting , 194 • 195 • Humour : false and true , 117 Proper employment of time , 118 WILLIAM SHENSTONE . The vision of Mirza : an Oriental ...
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... Conversation , WILLIAM HAZLITT . On the Tatler , On manner , On the character of Milton's Eve , My first acquaintance with poets , On living to one's self , · Dream - children : a reverie , The praise of chimney - sweepers , PAGE 292 ...
... Conversation , WILLIAM HAZLITT . On the Tatler , On manner , On the character of Milton's Eve , My first acquaintance with poets , On living to one's self , · Dream - children : a reverie , The praise of chimney - sweepers , PAGE 292 ...
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... conversation of men of fashion . English literature was already rich ; there was a whole world of books and of accumulated ideas to work upon . Then a public had arisen ; there was the " town , " idle , rich , eagerly inquiring after ...
... conversation of men of fashion . English literature was already rich ; there was a whole world of books and of accumulated ideas to work upon . Then a public had arisen ; there was the " town , " idle , rich , eagerly inquiring after ...
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... conversation : such as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen ; as Epimenides the Candian , Numa the Roman , Empedocles the Sicilian , and Apollonius of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient ...
... conversation : such as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen ; as Epimenides the Candian , Numa the Roman , Empedocles the Sicilian , and Apollonius of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient ...
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... conversation to vary and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments ; tales with reasons ; asking of ques- tions with telling of opinions ; and jest with earnest ; for it is a dull thing to tire , and , as we say now , to ...
... conversation to vary and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments ; tales with reasons ; asking of ques- tions with telling of opinions ; and jest with earnest ; for it is a dull thing to tire , and , as we say now , to ...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Workds of the ... Robert Cochrane Visualização integral - 1876 |
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