Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and CorrectionsLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858 |
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... passing glance which they cast on the newly discovered stars just beginning to twinkle through the haze . Besides the indigenous celebrities which , about the end of the last century , the modern Athens was breeding up for her own local ...
... passing glance which they cast on the newly discovered stars just beginning to twinkle through the haze . Besides the indigenous celebrities which , about the end of the last century , the modern Athens was breeding up for her own local ...
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... passes over it . At all events , leaving the problem to the metaphysicians , we see not the smallest reason for questioning the fact that Sydney Smith did suffer from shyness , although neither com- parative poverty nor unequal rank ...
... passes over it . At all events , leaving the problem to the metaphysicians , we see not the smallest reason for questioning the fact that Sydney Smith did suffer from shyness , although neither com- parative poverty nor unequal rank ...
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... a player might instruct a priest . " Faust . Yes , when the priest is a player , as may likely enough come to pass occasionally . " - Goethe's Faust . suggestion of Swift's , proposed to organise a body of 22 THE REV . SYDNEY SMITH :
... a player might instruct a priest . " Faust . Yes , when the priest is a player , as may likely enough come to pass occasionally . " - Goethe's Faust . suggestion of Swift's , proposed to organise a body of 22 THE REV . SYDNEY SMITH :
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... pass the mixture from one to the other . " About forty years ago , I stopped an infant in Lord Breadalbane's grounds , and patted his face . The nurse said , ' Hold up your head , Lord Glenorchy . ' This was the Presi- dent of your ...
... pass the mixture from one to the other . " About forty years ago , I stopped an infant in Lord Breadalbane's grounds , and patted his face . The nurse said , ' Hold up your head , Lord Glenorchy . ' This was the Presi- dent of your ...
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... passes current , or is ticketed , as his ; for so fertile was his mind that thoughts and images fell from him and were picked up and appropriated by others , like the carelessly set jewels which dropped from Bucking- ham's dress at the ...
... passes current , or is ticketed , as his ; for so fertile was his mind that thoughts and images fell from him and were picked up and appropriated by others , like the carelessly set jewels which dropped from Bucking- ham's dress at the ...
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