The Book of Authors: A Collection of Criticisms, Ana, Môts, Personal Descriptions, Etc. Etc. Etc. Wholly Referring to English Men of Letters in Every Age of English LiteratureF. Warne and Company, 1871 - 516 oldal |
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... nature . Thomson was so excessively lazy that he is recorded to have been seen standing at a peach - tree , with both his hands in his pockets , eating the fruit as it grew.- " Percy Anecdotes . " Thomson was blessed with a strong and ...
... nature . Thomson was so excessively lazy that he is recorded to have been seen standing at a peach - tree , with both his hands in his pockets , eating the fruit as it grew.- " Percy Anecdotes . " Thomson was blessed with a strong and ...
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... nature -- a sort of dallying with the devil -- a fluxionary art of combining courage and cowardice , as when a man snuffs a candle with his fingers for the first time , or , better still perhaps , like that trembling with which a child ...
... nature -- a sort of dallying with the devil -- a fluxionary art of combining courage and cowardice , as when a man snuffs a candle with his fingers for the first time , or , better still perhaps , like that trembling with which a child ...
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... nature's genuine image wild and grand , The strong - mark'd picture of a master's hand . But when his Garrick , Nature's Pallas , came , The bard's bold painting burst into a flame : Each part new force and vital warmth received , As ...
... nature's genuine image wild and grand , The strong - mark'd picture of a master's hand . But when his Garrick , Nature's Pallas , came , The bard's bold painting burst into a flame : Each part new force and vital warmth received , As ...
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