The Biglow Papers, Band 2Ticknor and Fields, 1867 - 175 Seiten |
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... sense vivified and heated by conscience . The parson was to be the comple- ment rather than the antithesis of his parishioner , and I felt or fancied a certain humorous element in the real identity of the two under a seeming incongruity ...
... sense vivified and heated by conscience . The parson was to be the comple- ment rather than the antithesis of his parishioner , and I felt or fancied a certain humorous element in the real identity of the two under a seeming incongruity ...
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... sense . The first of these falls to the lot of scarce one in several generations ; the last is within the reach of many in every one that passes ; and of this an author may fairly hope to become in part the mouth- piece . If I put on ...
... sense . The first of these falls to the lot of scarce one in several generations ; the last is within the reach of many in every one that passes ; and of this an author may fairly hope to become in part the mouth- piece . If I put on ...
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... suggestion . He deceased , he passed out of existence , his spirit quitted its earthly habitation , winged its way to eternity , shook off its burden , & c . In one sense this is nothing new . The school xii INTRODUCTION .
... suggestion . He deceased , he passed out of existence , his spirit quitted its earthly habitation , winged its way to eternity , shook off its burden , & c . In one sense this is nothing new . The school xii INTRODUCTION .
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James Russell Lowell. In one sense this is nothing new . The school of Pope in verse ended by wire - drawing its phrase to such thinness that it could bear no weight of meaning whatever . Nor is fine writing by any means confined to ...
James Russell Lowell. In one sense this is nothing new . The school of Pope in verse ended by wire - drawing its phrase to such thinness that it could bear no weight of meaning whatever . Nor is fine writing by any means confined to ...
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... sense , and to believe that eternal three per cent is not the chief end of man , nor the highest and only kind of interest to which the powers and opportunities of England are entitled . The quality of exaggeration has often been ...
... sense , and to believe that eternal three per cent is not the chief end of man , nor the highest and only kind of interest to which the powers and opportunities of England are entitled . The quality of exaggeration has often been ...
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