Famous Men of Modern TimesThomas, Cowperthwait, 1846 - 288 páginas |
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... literary , as a moral point of view . Believing that biography is at once a most attractive and useful kind of reading , the author has sought to avail himself of the full strength of his subject , to attain two objects -- the pleasure ...
... literary , as a moral point of view . Believing that biography is at once a most attractive and useful kind of reading , the author has sought to avail himself of the full strength of his subject , to attain two objects -- the pleasure ...
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... literary people , and still less with the gentry of the west country , the two sets that he most frequented . Mr. Thomas Grier- son was , at that time , a clerk of my father's . He knew Burns , and promised to ask him to his lodgings to ...
... literary people , and still less with the gentry of the west country , the two sets that he most frequented . Mr. Thomas Grier- son was , at that time , a clerk of my father's . He knew Burns , and promised to ask him to his lodgings to ...
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... literary emoluments have been since his day , the efforts made for his relief were extremely trifling . " In his earlier rambles , Scott often travelled on foot , attended by two companions - one , a youth about ten or twelve years old ...
... literary emoluments have been since his day , the efforts made for his relief were extremely trifling . " In his earlier rambles , Scott often travelled on foot , attended by two companions - one , a youth about ten or twelve years old ...
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... literary acquisitions , but was not rated as among the leaders at the bar . He cultivated literary society , and again tried his hand at authorship . About the year 1800 , he published the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border , which was ...
... literary acquisitions , but was not rated as among the leaders at the bar . He cultivated literary society , and again tried his hand at authorship . About the year 1800 , he published the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border , which was ...
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... literary works , which had already attracted general attention . No- thing could be more quiet and simple than Sir Wal- ter's manners . He abounded in anecdote , relating his stories with the least possible ostentation . He spoke of ...
... literary works , which had already attracted general attention . No- thing could be more quiet and simple than Sir Wal- ter's manners . He abounded in anecdote , relating his stories with the least possible ostentation . He spoke of ...
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