Anglo-American Literature and Manners, etc. [Translated by Donald Macleod.]Charles Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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... thousand varied impressions were profoundly engraved upon their minds which were endowed by Nature with a great aptitude to receive such impressions . Dante had seen Florence ; he created a Hell : Theologian , he created the Paradise ...
... thousand varied impressions were profoundly engraved upon their minds which were endowed by Nature with a great aptitude to receive such impressions . Dante had seen Florence ; he created a Hell : Theologian , he created the Paradise ...
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Victor Euphémion Philarète CHASLES. have been reproduced , when all ideas have been a thousand times repeated , that they demand of art an impossible fecun- dity and originality . Hence the monsters produced by the old Literature when it ...
Victor Euphémion Philarète CHASLES. have been reproduced , when all ideas have been a thousand times repeated , that they demand of art an impossible fecun- dity and originality . Hence the monsters produced by the old Literature when it ...
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... thousand curious little traits , a thousand 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 ...
... thousand curious little traits , a thousand 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 ...
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... thousand virtues by which they , who fear to pronounce your name , may distinguish you . For myself , who am more afflicted , I believe , than any one , by the fate of M. de Lafa- yette , I shall not have the presumption to imagine that ...
... thousand virtues by which they , who fear to pronounce your name , may distinguish you . For myself , who am more afflicted , I believe , than any one , by the fate of M. de Lafa- yette , I shall not have the presumption to imagine that ...
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... thousand times crossed that prairie ; questioned those charming scenes , and made them echo with your voice . We must add that this pleasure is purchased by an ennui caused by spinnings - out , and digres- sions and that this picture ...
... thousand times crossed that prairie ; questioned those charming scenes , and made them echo with your voice . We must add that this pleasure is purchased by an ennui caused by spinnings - out , and digres- sions and that this picture ...
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