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Pàgina xix
... written , and the sound and action recall to the imagination at once his form , his merits , his peculiarities , nay , the very uncouthness of his gestures , and the deep impressive tone of his voice . We learn not only what he said ...
... written , and the sound and action recall to the imagination at once his form , his merits , his peculiarities , nay , the very uncouthness of his gestures , and the deep impressive tone of his voice . We learn not only what he said ...
Pàgina xx
... written in one week , and sent in portions to the printer.11 Johnson told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he never afterwards read it over ! The publishers paid the author a hundred pounds , with twenty - four more , when the work came to a ...
... written in one week , and sent in portions to the printer.11 Johnson told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he never afterwards read it over ! The publishers paid the author a hundred pounds , with twenty - four more , when the work came to a ...
Pàgina 2
... written , but printed in his thirteenth year ; * containing , with other poetical compositions , The tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , " written when he was ten years old ; and " Constantia and Philetus , " written two years ...
... written , but printed in his thirteenth year ; * containing , with other poetical compositions , The tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , " written when he was ten years old ; and " Constantia and Philetus , " written two years ...
Pàgina 8
... writing when the feuds of civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was obliged ... written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasure to its natural sources in the minds of ...
... writing when the feuds of civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was obliged ... written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasure to its natural sources in the minds of ...
Pàgina 17
... written upon Hope shows an unequalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of fate's dilemma wound ; Vain shadow ...
... written upon Hope shows an unequalled fertility of invention : Hope , whose weak being ruin'd is , Alike if it succeed and if it miss ; Whom good or ill does equally confound , And both the horns of fate's dilemma wound ; Vain shadow ...
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