The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, GentOxford University Press, 1912 - 465 من الصفحات |
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... minds . The aunt who loves a nephew of whom she sees little and knows less is a senti- mentalist because she loves him not for his own characteristics , which may be worthy or not of love , but for an idealized portrait of him wearing a ...
... minds . The aunt who loves a nephew of whom she sees little and knows less is a senti- mentalist because she loves him not for his own characteristics , which may be worthy or not of love , but for an idealized portrait of him wearing a ...
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... mind , when all the world beside was cloaked in a haze of ' gentle ' emotion . In these legends Irving is at his happiest the contrast between the romantic stories and the light satirical manner of their telling is always delicate and ...
... mind , when all the world beside was cloaked in a haze of ' gentle ' emotion . In these legends Irving is at his happiest the contrast between the romantic stories and the light satirical manner of their telling is always delicate and ...
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... , but by the very constitution and habits of my mind . My whole course of life ' , I observed , has been desultory , and I am unfitted for any periodically recurring task , or any stipulated labour of body or 4 PREFACE.
... , but by the very constitution and habits of my mind . My whole course of life ' , I observed , has been desultory , and I am unfitted for any periodically recurring task , or any stipulated labour of body or 4 PREFACE.
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Washington Irving. recurring task , or any stipulated labour of body or mind . I have no command of my talents , such as they are , and have to watch the varyings of my mind as I would those of a weathercock . Practice and training may ...
Washington Irving. recurring task , or any stipulated labour of body or mind . I have no command of my talents , such as they are , and have to watch the varyings of my mind as I would those of a weathercock . Practice and training may ...
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Washington Irving. THE SKETCH BOOK THE AUTHOR'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF I am of this mind with Homer , that as the snaile that crept out of her shel was turned eftsoons into a toad , and thereby was forced to make a stoole to sit on ; so the ...
Washington Irving. THE SKETCH BOOK THE AUTHOR'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF I am of this mind with Homer , that as the snaile that crept out of her shel was turned eftsoons into a toad , and thereby was forced to make a stoole to sit on ; so the ...
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