The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great Essayists, from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin : with Introduction, Biographical Notices, and Critical NotesW.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1887 |
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... beauty by exercise , . On the different hours kept in modern 155 • • 157 158 • 160 161 • 163 · 163 . 164 times , 165 • ing ,. Of practice and habits , Of principles ,. 101 The club , 167 • 102 Inkle and Yarico , 169 103 . Of prejudices ...
... beauty by exercise , . On the different hours kept in modern 155 • • 157 158 • 160 161 • 163 · 163 . 164 times , 165 • ing ,. Of practice and habits , Of principles ,. 101 The club , 167 • 102 Inkle and Yarico , 169 103 . Of prejudices ...
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... beauty in the boxes at the opera . Leisure and life - long devotion to a task have often resulted in tediousness . Large works are often too heavy for posterity to carry . We have too many " Canterbury Tales . " The " Faery Queen would ...
... beauty in the boxes at the opera . Leisure and life - long devotion to a task have often resulted in tediousness . Large works are often too heavy for posterity to carry . We have too many " Canterbury Tales . " The " Faery Queen would ...
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... beauty without a divine marshal . The Scripture saith , " The fool hath said in his heart , There is no God : " * it is not said , " The fool hath thought in his heart . " So as he rather saith it by rote to himself , as that he would ...
... beauty without a divine marshal . The Scripture saith , " The fool hath said in his heart , There is no God : " * it is not said , " The fool hath thought in his heart . " So as he rather saith it by rote to himself , as that he would ...
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... beauty , that of favour is more than that of colour : and that of decent and gracious motion more than that of favour . That is the best part of beauty , which a picture cannot express : no , nor the first sight of the life . There is ...
... beauty , that of favour is more than that of colour : and that of decent and gracious motion more than that of favour . That is the best part of beauty , which a picture cannot express : no , nor the first sight of the life . There is ...
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... beauty will the blind , or music the deaf . As we should take care that our style in writing be neither dry nor empty : we should look again it be not winding , or wanton with far - fetched descriptions ; either is a vice . But that is ...
... beauty will the blind , or music the deaf . As we should take care that our style in writing be neither dry nor empty : we should look again it be not winding , or wanton with far - fetched descriptions ; either is a vice . But that is ...
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