The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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Page 22
... appear if we compare the best amateur , with a second or even a third rate professional actor . What miserable mummery are pri- vate theatricals ! At those given last year at Hatfield House , old General G- was pressed by a lady to say ...
... appear if we compare the best amateur , with a second or even a third rate professional actor . What miserable mummery are pri- vate theatricals ! At those given last year at Hatfield House , old General G- was pressed by a lady to say ...
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... appear older than we are , except our subsequent anxiety to obtain the reputation of being younger than we are . The first longing is natural , for Hope is before us , and it seems possible to anticipate that which we must soon reach ...
... appear older than we are , except our subsequent anxiety to obtain the reputation of being younger than we are . The first longing is natural , for Hope is before us , and it seems possible to anticipate that which we must soon reach ...
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... appear in the form of an old joke , when he is treated with the utmost scorn and contumely . As this is equally repre- hensible and inconsistent , I shall endeavour to cure my readers of any such propensity , by habituating them to ...
... appear in the form of an old joke , when he is treated with the utmost scorn and contumely . As this is equally repre- hensible and inconsistent , I shall endeavour to cure my readers of any such propensity , by habituating them to ...
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... appear more espe- cially to our imagination , as the handiworks and records of those great nations , for which , even from our boyish days , we have ever felt the deepest reverence . And association can find the identical elements of ...
... appear more espe- cially to our imagination , as the handiworks and records of those great nations , for which , even from our boyish days , we have ever felt the deepest reverence . And association can find the identical elements of ...
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... appears that these infal- lible bishops and other learned and good men , who had under- taken to fix and determine the only right road to heaven , were themselves but blind guides , for , in the year 1562 , their Confession of Faith was ...
... appears that these infal- lible bishops and other learned and good men , who had under- taken to fix and determine the only right road to heaven , were themselves but blind guides , for , in the year 1562 , their Confession of Faith was ...
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