Imaginary PortraitsMacmillan and Company, 1890 - 180 páginas Fictional accounts of historical figures. |
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... course ! —his late successes . And yet ! -does he , in writing to these old people , purposely underrate his great good fortune and seeming happiness , not to shock them too much by the contrast between the delicate enjoyments of the ...
... course ! —his late successes . And yet ! -does he , in writing to these old people , purposely underrate his great good fortune and seeming happiness , not to shock them too much by the contrast between the delicate enjoyments of the ...
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... course with the great world , his distant and preoccupied manner - a manner , it is true , the same to every one . It is certainly not through pride in his success , as some might fancy , for he was thus always . It is rather as if ...
... course with the great world , his distant and preoccupied manner - a manner , it is true , the same to every one . It is certainly not through pride in his success , as some might fancy , for he was thus always . It is rather as if ...
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... course , should understand at least twice as well as all other people — with surpassing expression . March 1716 . Is it the depressing result of this labour , of a too exacting labour ? I know not . But at times , ( it is his one ...
... course , should understand at least twice as well as all other people — with surpassing expression . March 1716 . Is it the depressing result of this labour , of a too exacting labour ? I know not . But at times , ( it is his one ...
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... course of their lives could hardly have been other than it That impression comes , perhaps , wholly of the writer's skill ; but , at all events , I must read the book no more . was . June 1718 . And he has allowed that Mademoiselle ...
... course of their lives could hardly have been other than it That impression comes , perhaps , wholly of the writer's skill ; but , at all events , I must read the book no more . was . June 1718 . And he has allowed that Mademoiselle ...
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... course of life , something of the essential melancholy of the comedian . He , so fastidious and cold , and who has never " ventured the representation of passion , ' does but amuse the gay world ; and is aware of that , though certainly ...
... course of life , something of the essential melancholy of the comedian . He , so fastidious and cold , and who has never " ventured the representation of passion , ' does but amuse the gay world ; and is aware of that , though certainly ...
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