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An amateur performer in verse expressed to a common friend , a strong desire to be introduced to me , but hesitated in accepting my friend's immediate offer , on the score that “ he was , he must acknowledge ...
An amateur performer in verse expressed to a common friend , a strong desire to be introduced to me , but hesitated in accepting my friend's immediate offer , on the score that “ he was , he must acknowledge ...
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Having a deficient portion of internal and proper warmth , minds of this class seek in the crowd circum fana for a warmth in common , which they do not possess singly . Cold and phlegmatic in their own nature , like damp hay , they heat ...
Having a deficient portion of internal and proper warmth , minds of this class seek in the crowd circum fana for a warmth in common , which they do not possess singly . Cold and phlegmatic in their own nature , like damp hay , they heat ...
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... of his personal existence , Shakspeare adds : “ Your name from hence immortal life shall have , Tho ' I once gone to all the world must die ; The earth can yield me but a common grave , When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie .
... of his personal existence , Shakspeare adds : “ Your name from hence immortal life shall have , Tho ' I once gone to all the world must die ; The earth can yield me but a common grave , When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie .
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... nothing is more common , than for the many to mistake the general liveliness of his manner and language whatever is the subject , for the effects of peculiar irritation from its accidental relation to himself . * For 44.
... nothing is more common , than for the many to mistake the general liveliness of his manner and language whatever is the subject , for the effects of peculiar irritation from its accidental relation to himself . * For 44.
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But where this has not been the case , yet the reader delirium , so as to people the barrenness of an hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose .
But where this has not been the case , yet the reader delirium , so as to people the barrenness of an hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose .
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