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... allowed that the circum- stances of difficulty enhance the value of a marble head , we should consider , that if it ... allow it then in writing ? Why do you take the trouble to give us so many fine allusions , and bright images , and ...
... allowed that the circum- stances of difficulty enhance the value of a marble head , we should consider , that if it ... allow it then in writing ? Why do you take the trouble to give us so many fine allusions , and bright images , and ...
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... allow Foote for life sixteen hundred pounds a year , as Reynolds told me , and to allow him to play so often on such terms that he may gain four hundred pounds more . What Colman can get by this bargain , 1 but trouble and hazard , I do ...
... allow Foote for life sixteen hundred pounds a year , as Reynolds told me , and to allow him to play so often on such terms that he may gain four hundred pounds more . What Colman can get by this bargain , 1 but trouble and hazard , I do ...
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... allow merit to a player . " JOHNSON . " Merit , Sir , what merit ? Do you respect a rope - dancer , or a ballad - singer ? " BOSWELL . " No , Sir : but we respect a great player , as a man who can conceive lofty sentiments , and can ...
... allow merit to a player . " JOHNSON . " Merit , Sir , what merit ? Do you respect a rope - dancer , or a ballad - singer ? " BOSWELL . " No , Sir : but we respect a great player , as a man who can conceive lofty sentiments , and can ...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 2 James Boswell,Samuel Johnson Visualização integral - 1791 |
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