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Page xiv
... remember , or possible to use . These recovered creatures lead but a blinking kind of existence for a very short time , and then , even though their works may have been reprinted on Whatman paper , sink back into oblivion , and rest for ...
... remember , or possible to use . These recovered creatures lead but a blinking kind of existence for a very short time , and then , even though their works may have been reprinted on Whatman paper , sink back into oblivion , and rest for ...
Page xv
... remembering how hard and self- engrossing is the labour of carrying out any high plan of literary excellence , how furious the fever occasioned by the thought of perfection , how hot the hell of failure , — puts them carefully away ...
... remembering how hard and self- engrossing is the labour of carrying out any high plan of literary excellence , how furious the fever occasioned by the thought of perfection , how hot the hell of failure , — puts them carefully away ...
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... remember in the South - Sea House - I speak of forty years back - had an air very different from those in the public offices that I have had to do with since . They partook of the genius of the place ! They were mostly ( for the ...
... remember in the South - Sea House - I speak of forty years back - had an air very different from those in the public offices that I have had to do with since . They partook of the genius of the place ! They were mostly ( for the ...
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... remember to have seen in caricatures of what were termed , in my young days , Maccaronies . He was the last of that race of beaux . Melancholy as a gib - cat over his counter all the forenoon , I think I see him , making up his cash ...
... remember to have seen in caricatures of what were termed , in my young days , Maccaronies . He was the last of that race of beaux . Melancholy as a gib - cat over his counter all the forenoon , I think I see him , making up his cash ...
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... remember their effigies , by the same token , in the old Basket Prayer Book . There hung Peter in his uneasy posture- --holy Bartlemy in the troublesome act of flaying , after the famous Marsyas by Spagnoletti.- -I honoured them all ...
... remember their effigies , by the same token , in the old Basket Prayer Book . There hung Peter in his uneasy posture- --holy Bartlemy in the troublesome act of flaying , after the famous Marsyas by Spagnoletti.- -I honoured them all ...
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