Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volumen3H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 páginas |
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... French . From the profligate romance of Louvet , down to that most heartless and detestable of all productions , Les Liaisons Dangereuses , the lite- rature of France , however poor in other respects , leaves not a single niche ...
... French . From the profligate romance of Louvet , down to that most heartless and detestable of all productions , Les Liaisons Dangereuses , the lite- rature of France , however poor in other respects , leaves not a single niche ...
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... French literature , must have observed the slavish conceit with which every individual , for many ages , identified his own personal vanity with that of the grand monarque , to which we may attribute their custom of ransacking ancient ...
... French literature , must have observed the slavish conceit with which every individual , for many ages , identified his own personal vanity with that of the grand monarque , to which we may attribute their custom of ransacking ancient ...
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... French Academy should always be kept in view , and remem- bering the anecdote recorded by M. Grimm , one of its members , who died in the greatest grammatical di- lemma as to whether he should say " Je m'en vais , " or , " je m'en va ...
... French Academy should always be kept in view , and remem- bering the anecdote recorded by M. Grimm , one of its members , who died in the greatest grammatical di- lemma as to whether he should say " Je m'en vais , " or , " je m'en va ...
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... French , we had possessed a special Academy of Inscriptions . Thus we apply the name of Whitehall to a black chapel ; Cheapside is dear on both sides ; the Serpentine River is a straight canal , and the New River an old canal ...
... French , we had possessed a special Academy of Inscriptions . Thus we apply the name of Whitehall to a black chapel ; Cheapside is dear on both sides ; the Serpentine River is a straight canal , and the New River an old canal ...
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... French Academy of Inscriptions . Having , in my late perambulations through London , noted down what appeared to me particularly reprehensible , and thrown the various addresses of the parties into an appendix , in order that your ...
... French Academy of Inscriptions . Having , in my late perambulations through London , noted down what appeared to me particularly reprehensible , and thrown the various addresses of the parties into an appendix , in order that your ...
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