Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists ...G. P. Putnam's sons, 1883 |
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... better . I seem to have made friends with them in their own houses : to have walked , and talked , and suffered , and enjoyed with them ; and if their books have made the places better , the books themselves were there which made them ...
... better . I seem to have made friends with them in their own houses : to have walked , and talked , and suffered , and enjoyed with them ; and if their books have made the places better , the books themselves were there which made them ...
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... better regulated ; —not that those powers should not be exercised at all , but that they should be better exercised ; not that in the exercise of them no rules at all should be pursued , but that the rules by which they are exercised ...
... better regulated ; —not that those powers should not be exercised at all , but that they should be better exercised ; not that in the exercise of them no rules at all should be pursued , but that the rules by which they are exercised ...
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... better , as Goethe said , to do the most trifling thing in the world , than to think half an hour a trifling thing . Nobody means by this that we are to have no pleasures . Where time is lost and wasted is where many people lose and ...
... better , as Goethe said , to do the most trifling thing in the world , than to think half an hour a trifling thing . Nobody means by this that we are to have no pleasures . Where time is lost and wasted is where many people lose and ...
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THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE By W Irving | 3 |
THE WORLD OF BOOKS | 25 |
IMPERFECT SYMPATHIES | 43 |
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