Letters to Dead AuthorsLongmans, Green, 1886 - 234 страница |
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... whole surface of life a repeated echo of its laughter and its complaint . Others have written , and not written badly , with the stolid professional regularity of the clerk at his desk ; you , like the Scholar Gipsy , might have said ...
... whole surface of life a repeated echo of its laughter and its complaint . Others have written , and not written badly , with the stolid professional regularity of the clerk at his desk ; you , like the Scholar Gipsy , might have said ...
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... perpetually astonishes and delights -- would alone give immortality to an author , even had he little to say . But you , with your whole wide world of fops and fools , of good women and brave men 8 LETTERS TO DEAD AUTHORS.
... perpetually astonishes and delights -- would alone give immortality to an author , even had he little to say . But you , with your whole wide world of fops and fools , of good women and brave men 8 LETTERS TO DEAD AUTHORS.
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... whole legions of Angels , and I ( like the bereaved fowl mentioned by Pet Marjory ) would re- main unmoved . She was more than usual calm , She did not give a single dam , wrote the astonishing child who diverted the leisure of Scott ...
... whole legions of Angels , and I ( like the bereaved fowl mentioned by Pet Marjory ) would re- main unmoved . She was more than usual calm , She did not give a single dam , wrote the astonishing child who diverted the leisure of Scott ...
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... said that men know many things from of old : thither , then , I came in my inquiry . Now , the island is not small , but large , greater than the whole of Hellas ; and they call it 34 LETTERS TO DEAD AUTHORS IV TO HERODOTUS.
... said that men know many things from of old : thither , then , I came in my inquiry . Now , the island is not small , but large , greater than the whole of Hellas ; and they call it 34 LETTERS TO DEAD AUTHORS IV TO HERODOTUS.
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... whole of this island , from the west even to the east , there flows a river called Thames : a great river and a laborious , but not to be likened to the River of Egypt . The mouth of this river , where I stepped out from my ship , is ...
... whole of this island , from the west even to the east , there flows a river called Thames : a great river and a laborious , but not to be likened to the River of Egypt . The mouth of this river , where I stepped out from my ship , is ...
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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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