The Pageant of English Prose: Being Five Hundred Passages by Three Hundred and Twenty-five AuthorsRobert Maynard Leonard Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920 - 743 sivua |
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... means I can improve myself with those objects , which others consider with terror . When I look upon the tombs of the great , every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful , every inordinate desire goes ...
... means I can improve myself with those objects , which others consider with terror . When I look upon the tombs of the great , every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful , every inordinate desire goes ...
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... means of these hard words and dark expressions . J. ADDISON . - Spectator , No. 165 . PAPER MANUFACTURE Periturae parcite chartae . JUVENAL . OUR paper manufacture takes into it several mean materials which could be put to no other use ...
... means of these hard words and dark expressions . J. ADDISON . - Spectator , No. 165 . PAPER MANUFACTURE Periturae parcite chartae . JUVENAL . OUR paper manufacture takes into it several mean materials which could be put to no other use ...
Sivu 8
... means be raised from a dunghill , and become the most valuable piece of furniture in a prince's cabinet . J. ADDISON . - Spectator , No. 367 . THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS No one who is acquainted with the literature , whether daily ...
... means be raised from a dunghill , and become the most valuable piece of furniture in a prince's cabinet . J. ADDISON . - Spectator , No. 367 . THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS No one who is acquainted with the literature , whether daily ...
Sivu 13
... His chief delight appears to be tor- menting and ridiculing his sisters , who , in return , most heartily despise him . Miss Branghton , the eldest daughter , 1 See note . She is by no means ugly ; but looks proud D'ARBLAY 13.
... His chief delight appears to be tor- menting and ridiculing his sisters , who , in return , most heartily despise him . Miss Branghton , the eldest daughter , 1 See note . She is by no means ugly ; but looks proud D'ARBLAY 13.
Sivu 14
... means ugly ; but looks proud , ill - tempered , and conceited . She hates the city , though without knowing why ; for it is easy to discover she has lived nowhere else . Miss Polly Branghton is rather pretty , very foolish , very ...
... means ugly ; but looks proud , ill - tempered , and conceited . She hates the city , though without knowing why ; for it is easy to discover she has lived nowhere else . Miss Polly Branghton is rather pretty , very foolish , very ...
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