Letters to Dead AuthorsLongmans, Green, 1886 - 234 страница |
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... seem to me like the sound of country bells , provoking I don't know what vein of music and meditation , and falling sweetly and sadly on the ear . ' Surely that style , so fresh , so rich , so full of surprises - that style which stamps ...
... seem to me like the sound of country bells , provoking I don't know what vein of music and meditation , and falling sweetly and sadly on the ear . ' Surely that style , so fresh , so rich , so full of surprises - that style which stamps ...
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... seem to have read you a little ( especially your later works ) , and never to have read anything else . Now familiarity with the pages of ' Our Mutual Friend ' and ' Dombey and Son ' does not precisely constitute a liberal education ...
... seem to have read you a little ( especially your later works ) , and never to have read anything else . Now familiarity with the pages of ' Our Mutual Friend ' and ' Dombey and Son ' does not precisely constitute a liberal education ...
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... seem more essential than great states- men , artists , soldiers , who have actually worn flesh and blood , ribbons and orders , gowns and uniforms . May we not almost welcome ' Free Education ' ? for every Englishman who can read ...
... seem more essential than great states- men , artists , soldiers , who have actually worn flesh and blood , ribbons and orders , gowns and uniforms . May we not almost welcome ' Free Education ' ? for every Englishman who can read ...
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... seem to mark thee wandering silent through some little village , or dreaming in the woods , or loitering among thy lonely places , or in gardens where the roses . blossom among wilder flowers , or on river banks where the whispering pop ...
... seem to mark thee wandering silent through some little village , or dreaming in the woods , or loitering among thy lonely places , or in gardens where the roses . blossom among wilder flowers , or on river banks where the whispering pop ...
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... seems that the Britons are a colony of the Egyptians , or the Egyptians a colony of the Britons . Moreover , when I was in Egypt I saw certain soldiers in white helmets , who were certainly British . But what they did there ( as Egypt ...
... seems that the Britons are a colony of the Egyptians , or the Egyptians a colony of the Britons . Moreover , when I was in Egypt I saw certain soldiers in white helmets , who were certainly British . But what they did there ( as Egypt ...
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admirers Alemanni Alexandre Dumas angler Athene Benfeius burn Byron called Catullus Chapelain clepen comedy concerning Herodotus Coqcigrues cries critic dawn DEAD AUTHORS dear Dickens didst thou Dombey and Son drink dwell Egypt England Englishmen evil fair fancy Farewell Father fortunate France Françoys Rabelais friends genius Gods grave happy hath heart heathen HERMES Homer honour Horace human humour immortal John Chalkhill knew ladies land laugh laughter laurel learned letters literary live Lond Lord Byron Lucian Maître Françoys matter Medes methinks Molière Muellerus Muscovy Muses never Panurge Pierre de Ronsard poems poet poetry Pope popular Porthos praise priest Prince prose Rabelais Ronsard Rose Sam Weller satire Shelley sing song Sophocles speak sweet taste tell thee Theocritus Théophile Gautier thine things thou didst thou wert thou wouldst Thresoure trout turn verse wandering wine write Ynde Zeus
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