The British Essayists: The MirrorLittle, Brown, 1866 |
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... Things are not done - Observations on Pastoral Poetry .. 130 80. Critique on that Species of Composition , known by the Name of Advertisement .. 138 81. Distresses of an Heiress , in a Letter from Olivia . .................. . 145 NO ...
... Things are not done - Observations on Pastoral Poetry .. 130 80. Critique on that Species of Composition , known by the Name of Advertisement .. 138 81. Distresses of an Heiress , in a Letter from Olivia . .................. . 145 NO ...
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... thing that is important , and whose mind , like a microscope , sees only what is little , and takes in nothing that is great . But no character can be more respectable than that of a man of talents , whose thoughts are often employed ...
... thing that is important , and whose mind , like a microscope , sees only what is little , and takes in nothing that is great . But no character can be more respectable than that of a man of talents , whose thoughts are often employed ...
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... past hours in the inanimate things amidst which they have been spent , that gives us back the affections , the regrets , the sentiments , of our former days ; that gives us back their joys without tumult , their griefs NO . 61 . 27 MIRROR .
... past hours in the inanimate things amidst which they have been spent , that gives us back the affections , the regrets , the sentiments , of our former days ; that gives us back their joys without tumult , their griefs NO . 61 . 27 MIRROR .
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... things , by which the town , the house , the room in which we live , have a powerful influence over us . He must be a very dull , or a very dissipated man , who , after a month's absence , can open his own door without emotion , even ...
... things , by which the town , the house , the room in which we live , have a powerful influence over us . He must be a very dull , or a very dissipated man , who , after a month's absence , can open his own door without emotion , even ...
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... things impossible , with the hope of being credited ; and yet the two personages , whose legends I have re- lated , must have entertained that hope . " Neither is it less wonderful that invention should be stretched to the utmost , in ...
... things impossible , with the hope of being credited ; and yet the two personages , whose legends I have re- lated , must have entertained that hope . " Neither is it less wonderful that invention should be stretched to the utmost , in ...
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