National Review, Volume 3Robert Theobold, 1856 |
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... write his own life ; that a vivid and faith- ful image can only be obtained , and can be fully obtained , from the self - delineation , conscious or unconscious , of the man him- self , in memoirs or letters . This is one of those ideas ...
... write his own life ; that a vivid and faith- ful image can only be obtained , and can be fully obtained , from the self - delineation , conscious or unconscious , of the man him- self , in memoirs or letters . This is one of those ideas ...
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... write to a man to tell him what we think of him ; we would not for the world he should know , -we wish to be agreeable , especially to our best friends , who are the people with whose faults we are most familiar : on the other hand ...
... write to a man to tell him what we think of him ; we would not for the world he should know , -we wish to be agreeable , especially to our best friends , who are the people with whose faults we are most familiar : on the other hand ...
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... write their letters : they become a correspondent . Do Pope's letters tell us any thing about him ? He was thinking of absolutely nothing in writing them but of what would make a well - turned epistle ; it is like reading deal - boards ...
... write their letters : they become a correspondent . Do Pope's letters tell us any thing about him ? He was thinking of absolutely nothing in writing them but of what would make a well - turned epistle ; it is like reading deal - boards ...
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... writer of the Penin- sular despatches ? Moore , however , never seems to have al- tered . We see him on his first introduction to the stage , a little , round - faced , buoyant , clever , and pleasantly self - conceited child , with a ...
... writer of the Penin- sular despatches ? Moore , however , never seems to have al- tered . We see him on his first introduction to the stage , a little , round - faced , buoyant , clever , and pleasantly self - conceited child , with a ...
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... writing , and are not very inferior to some of his mature produc- tions . Nor was his rhetorical skill without similar juvenile antecedents : " As our house was far from spacious , the bed - room which I occu- pied was but a corner of ...
... writing , and are not very inferior to some of his mature produc- tions . Nor was his rhetorical skill without similar juvenile antecedents : " As our house was far from spacious , the bed - room which I occu- pied was but a corner of ...
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