The Quarterly Review, Volumes 98-99John Murray, 1856 |
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... equally con- spicuous , and the person who is spoken of , as par excellence a wit , ' is a second rate conversationist . He was so well drest , ' said somebody to Brummell , that people would turn and look at him . ' Then he was not ...
... equally con- spicuous , and the person who is spoken of , as par excellence a wit , ' is a second rate conversationist . He was so well drest , ' said somebody to Brummell , that people would turn and look at him . ' Then he was not ...
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... equally . I have myself found that I never fell into more sin than when I was alone . ' He was fond of children's prattle , and his sorrow for the death of his little daughter Magdalen is most affecting . All these traits , no doubt ...
... equally . I have myself found that I never fell into more sin than when I was alone . ' He was fond of children's prattle , and his sorrow for the death of his little daughter Magdalen is most affecting . All these traits , no doubt ...
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... equally how the paltriest puns in that day were received for wit ; and Lord Bacon's Apoph- thegms , the best repository of the smart sayings of the ancients which was made , bears testimony no less to the fact that an indifferent play ...
... equally how the paltriest puns in that day were received for wit ; and Lord Bacon's Apoph- thegms , the best repository of the smart sayings of the ancients which was made , bears testimony no less to the fact that an indifferent play ...
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... equally has a little worn off , and the daily work applicable to both classes , and contain a becomes familiar to them , rebel against its great deal of truth which lies at the foun- irksomeness , and struggle to escape from dation of ...
... equally has a little worn off , and the daily work applicable to both classes , and contain a becomes familiar to them , rebel against its great deal of truth which lies at the foun- irksomeness , and struggle to escape from dation of ...
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... equally ready , on falling into bad company , to exert himself to ob- tain their applause by audacity in crime ; and , though we advance the idea with fear and trembling , we cannot help submitting that perhaps there was something as re ...
... equally ready , on falling into bad company , to exert himself to ob- tain their applause by audacity in crime ; and , though we advance the idea with fear and trembling , we cannot help submitting that perhaps there was something as re ...
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