Crayon Sketches, Volume 1Conner and Cooke, 1833 - American literature |
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... play with unbecoming zeal " much ado about nothing " for a few years - we die some day just when we did not want to do so— -the living clod is resolved into the lifeless one , and we become - a dream , a recollection , a dimly ...
... play with unbecoming zeal " much ado about nothing " for a few years - we die some day just when we did not want to do so— -the living clod is resolved into the lifeless one , and we become - a dream , a recollection , a dimly ...
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... play a straight hazard at a billard table , than to learn habitually to undervalue truth , treating her like a play - thing - a shuttlecock - to be bandied to and fro as suits their convenience ? Is it worse for them to sit in a theatre ...
... play a straight hazard at a billard table , than to learn habitually to undervalue truth , treating her like a play - thing - a shuttlecock - to be bandied to and fro as suits their convenience ? Is it worse for them to sit in a theatre ...
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... plays - his " Tempest , " and " Midsummer Night's Dream . " These wild and delicate pieces of fancy were never intended ... play ( or dream ) aloud ; they are of too fine a texture for the harsh human voice , and should be imbibed and ...
... plays - his " Tempest , " and " Midsummer Night's Dream . " These wild and delicate pieces of fancy were never intended ... play ( or dream ) aloud ; they are of too fine a texture for the harsh human voice , and should be imbibed and ...
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... playing Hadyn's sym- phonies on a hurdy - gurdy ! And yet , what will not mortals attempt ? The most of us have actually heard a stage Bottom issue such directions as these to some silly , fat , flobby child in white or green ...
... playing Hadyn's sym- phonies on a hurdy - gurdy ! And yet , what will not mortals attempt ? The most of us have actually heard a stage Bottom issue such directions as these to some silly , fat , flobby child in white or green ...
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... plays - Mac- beth . You are sitting by the fire on a winter's evening , " wrapped " in the perusal of this master- piece of nature's masterpiece , preparatory to visiting the theatre to see it played . In your mind's eye you perceive ...
... plays - Mac- beth . You are sitting by the fire on a winter's evening , " wrapped " in the perusal of this master- piece of nature's masterpiece , preparatory to visiting the theatre to see it played . In your mind's eye you perceive ...
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