Imaginary PortraitsMacmillan and Company, 1890 - 180 páginas Fictional accounts of historical figures. |
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... natural fineness in him , to escape when he can from that blank stone house , with so little to interest , and that homely old man and woman . The rudeness of his home has turned his feeling for even the simpler graces of life into a ...
... natural fineness in him , to escape when he can from that blank stone house , with so little to interest , and that homely old man and woman . The rudeness of his home has turned his feeling for even the simpler graces of life into a ...
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... natural powers ) I can trace like the bloom of a flower upon him ; and he has , now and then , the gaieties which from time to time , surely , must refresh all true artists , however hard - working and " painful . " July 1705 . The ...
... natural powers ) I can trace like the bloom of a flower upon him ; and he has , now and then , the gaieties which from time to time , surely , must refresh all true artists , however hard - working and " painful . " July 1705 . The ...
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... natural to a promising youth who had still everything to do . And now the only realised enjoyment he has of all this might seem to be the thought of the independence it has purchased him , so that he can escape from с one lodging ...
... natural to a promising youth who had still everything to do . And now the only realised enjoyment he has of all this might seem to be the thought of the independence it has purchased him , so that he can escape from с one lodging ...
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... natural graces to make him seem too dis- tinguished ( a fitter word fails me ) for this world . Omnia vanitas ! he seems to say , yet with a profound resignation , which makes the things we are most of us so fondly occupied with look ...
... natural graces to make him seem too dis- tinguished ( a fitter word fails me ) for this world . Omnia vanitas ! he seems to say , yet with a profound resignation , which makes the things we are most of us so fondly occupied with look ...
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... naturally aristocratic ? Half in masquerade , playing the drawing - room or garden comedy of life , these persons have upon them , not less than the land- scape he composes , and among the accidents of which they group themselves with ...
... naturally aristocratic ? Half in masquerade , playing the drawing - room or garden comedy of life , these persons have upon them , not less than the land- scape he composes , and among the accidents of which they group themselves with ...
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