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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... turned of 40 years old . This is near the truth .-- Swift's Works . Now in equipages stately , now humbly on foot , Both fortunes he tried , but to neither would trust ; And whirled in the round as the wheel turned about , He found ...
... turned of 40 years old . This is near the truth .-- Swift's Works . Now in equipages stately , now humbly on foot , Both fortunes he tried , but to neither would trust ; And whirled in the round as the wheel turned about , He found ...
270. oldal
... turned to account in that way , that he once said to Sir Joshua Reynolds that he made it a rule when in company never to talk of what he understood . Beauclerk had for a short time a high opinion of Smith's conversation ; Garrick ...
... turned to account in that way , that he once said to Sir Joshua Reynolds that he made it a rule when in company never to talk of what he understood . Beauclerk had for a short time a high opinion of Smith's conversation ; Garrick ...
484. oldal
... turned in a humorous direction . -Whipple . Long may he live to make broader the face of our care- ridden generation ... Turning into fixed beauty any part of the shifting and mingled matter of our time , he does what in itself is very ...
... turned in a humorous direction . -Whipple . Long may he live to make broader the face of our care- ridden generation ... Turning into fixed beauty any part of the shifting and mingled matter of our time , he does what in itself is very ...
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