The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men and Things, Том 1Templeman, 1851 |
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... observation , and ( what is even worse ) of the opposite fault - an affectation of quaintness and originality . With bits of tar- nished lace and worthless frippery , he assumes a sweeping oriental costume , or borrows the stiff dresses ...
... observation , and ( what is even worse ) of the opposite fault - an affectation of quaintness and originality . With bits of tar- nished lace and worthless frippery , he assumes a sweeping oriental costume , or borrows the stiff dresses ...
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... observing that some of the old English prose - writers ( who were not poets ) are the best , and , at the same time , the most poetical in the favourable sense . Among these we may reckon some of the old divines , and Jeremy Taylor at ...
... observing that some of the old English prose - writers ( who were not poets ) are the best , and , at the same time , the most poetical in the favourable sense . Among these we may reckon some of the old divines , and Jeremy Taylor at ...
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... observation or a piece of news ; and though we of course put the answer into their mouths , we have no idea beforehand what it will be , and it takes us as much by surprise as it would in reality . This kind of successful ventriloquism ...
... observation or a piece of news ; and though we of course put the answer into their mouths , we have no idea beforehand what it will be , and it takes us as much by surprise as it would in reality . This kind of successful ventriloquism ...
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... observations , reflec- tions , and sentiments than others . These they have committed to books of memory , have be- queathed as a lasting legacy to posterity ; and such persons have become standard authors . We visit at the shrine ...
... observations , reflec- tions , and sentiments than others . These they have committed to books of memory , have be- queathed as a lasting legacy to posterity ; and such persons have become standard authors . We visit at the shrine ...
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... of fine tact and ironical turn in conversation that her relative had shown in her writings when young . The only answer I could get was an in- credulous smile , and the observation that when she wrote 48 ON THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS .
... of fine tact and ironical turn in conversation that her relative had shown in her writings when young . The only answer I could get was an in- credulous smile , and the observation that when she wrote 48 ON THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS .
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