Anglo-American Literature and Manners, etc. [Translated by Donald Macleod.]Charles Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... light fell upon the bronze robe of his sceptic precursor . He was , throughout the whole of his laborious life , more brilliant , more active , more influential , than Erasmus himself . Yet after all , in what did he succeed ? in ...
... light fell upon the bronze robe of his sceptic precursor . He was , throughout the whole of his laborious life , more brilliant , more active , more influential , than Erasmus himself . Yet after all , in what did he succeed ? in ...
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... light- giving anecdotes , jotted down upon the tablets of the travel- ler . You see there how marquises and counts amused themselves on the eve of a fearful catastrophe ; how lords , old and young , whose heads would soon be in danger ...
... light- giving anecdotes , jotted down upon the tablets of the travel- ler . You see there how marquises and counts amused themselves on the eve of a fearful catastrophe ; how lords , old and young , whose heads would soon be in danger ...
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... light - headed , capri- cious , violent ; desiring the good , doing the evil ; talking virtue , pedantic without knowing it ; a drunken marquis , who with trembling steps , in cloth of gold with ragged sleeves runs , singing , headlong ...
... light - headed , capri- cious , violent ; desiring the good , doing the evil ; talking virtue , pedantic without knowing it ; a drunken marquis , who with trembling steps , in cloth of gold with ragged sleeves runs , singing , headlong ...
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... light ridicule , the frivolity applied to the gravest in- terests , the mingling of silliness with striking and easy grace , did not escape Morris . " March 1st . - Sup with Madame de la Suse . A small party absorbed in Quinze ...
... light ridicule , the frivolity applied to the gravest in- terests , the mingling of silliness with striking and easy grace , did not escape Morris . " March 1st . - Sup with Madame de la Suse . A small party absorbed in Quinze ...
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... light upon that curious subject . Without insulting any misfortune , without adding any derogatory or painful reflection to the observations of Morris , we will content ourselves with copying certain lines relative to the life of the ...
... light upon that curious subject . Without insulting any misfortune , without adding any derogatory or painful reflection to the observations of Morris , we will content ourselves with copying certain lines relative to the life of the ...
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