Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and CorrectionsLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858 |
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... mathematics : " It is imagined that wit is a sort of inexplicable visitation , that it comes and goes with the rapidity of lightning , and that it is quite as unattainable as beauty or just c 4 HIS LIFE , CHARACTER , AND WRITINGS . 23.
... mathematics : " It is imagined that wit is a sort of inexplicable visitation , that it comes and goes with the rapidity of lightning , and that it is quite as unattainable as beauty or just c 4 HIS LIFE , CHARACTER , AND WRITINGS . 23.
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... beauty or just proportion . I am so much of a contrary way of thinking , that I am con- vinced a man might sit down as systematically , and as suc- cessfully , to the study of wit , as he might to the study of mathematics and I would ...
... beauty or just proportion . I am so much of a contrary way of thinking , that I am con- vinced a man might sit down as systematically , and as suc- cessfully , to the study of wit , as he might to the study of mathematics and I would ...
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... beauty of this country . I hope some day you will be charmed with it It banished , however , every Arcadian notion to see walk in at the gate to - day . I seemed to be transported instantly to Piccadilly , and the innocence went out of ...
... beauty of this country . I hope some day you will be charmed with it It banished , however , every Arcadian notion to see walk in at the gate to - day . I seemed to be transported instantly to Piccadilly , and the innocence went out of ...
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... beauty by the insensibility of age ; that I shall not live to see its decay , but die with that un- faded image before my eyes : but don't make a mistake , and deliver the message to instead of your sister . " I remain , dear Lady ...
... beauty by the insensibility of age ; that I shall not live to see its decay , but die with that un- faded image before my eyes : but don't make a mistake , and deliver the message to instead of your sister . " I remain , dear Lady ...
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... beauty , learn- ing , and genius . There , surrounded by the choicest treasures of art , and in a light reflected from Guidos and Titians , have sat and mingled in familiar con- verse the most eminent poets , painters , actors , artists ...
... beauty , learn- ing , and genius . There , surrounded by the choicest treasures of art , and in a light reflected from Guidos and Titians , have sat and mingled in familiar con- verse the most eminent poets , painters , actors , artists ...
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