National Review, Volume 3Robert Theobold, 1856 |
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... light thrown on the biographer . What would Johnson's life be without the naïve idolatry of Boswell ? It is the salt of the whole , and gives the point to half the anec- dotes . Moore himself notes down a happy case in point : " Bos ...
... light thrown on the biographer . What would Johnson's life be without the naïve idolatry of Boswell ? It is the salt of the whole , and gives the point to half the anec- dotes . Moore himself notes down a happy case in point : " Bos ...
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... light but a very sharp arrow , well feathered with fun and its point anointed with a sort of good - humoured bitterness which gave it a great charm in the eyes of the Whigs , then in the first soreness of the Prince's desertion . " I ...
... light but a very sharp arrow , well feathered with fun and its point anointed with a sort of good - humoured bitterness which gave it a great charm in the eyes of the Whigs , then in the first soreness of the Prince's desertion . " I ...
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... light shed on them by the setting sun , and their peaks rising so brightly behind the dark rocks in front , as if ... lights falling on those green spots which cultivation has con- jured up in the midst of this wild scene ; the pointed ...
... light shed on them by the setting sun , and their peaks rising so brightly behind the dark rocks in front , as if ... lights falling on those green spots which cultivation has con- jured up in the midst of this wild scene ; the pointed ...
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... light in it ; we turn to the azure - it is a little blue lamp with a light in it ; they are hung on nails on a wooden scaffolding . We smell oil - we regret we have approached so near - we go back to our old place - we gaze at it again ...
... light in it ; we turn to the azure - it is a little blue lamp with a light in it ; they are hung on nails on a wooden scaffolding . We smell oil - we regret we have approached so near - we go back to our old place - we gaze at it again ...
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... lights the fire of his fancy at the senses . Burns was a peasant , and he wrote in the free and simple language of passion common to all stations , but ungraced with those higher charms which refinement and cultivation in the object of ...
... lights the fire of his fancy at the senses . Burns was a peasant , and he wrote in the free and simple language of passion common to all stations , but ungraced with those higher charms which refinement and cultivation in the object of ...
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