The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 1 |
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... single angry feeling . This is not the place , however , to expatiate upon his character , as it is my intention to make his life , for which I had been collecting materials long before his decease , the subject of a second volume ; and ...
... single angry feeling . This is not the place , however , to expatiate upon his character , as it is my intention to make his life , for which I had been collecting materials long before his decease , the subject of a second volume ; and ...
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... single verse , than you will ever think of him in the whole course of your life . " Father Mabillon , who had been of a very narrow capacity in his youth , fell , at the age of twenty - six , against a stone stair - case , fractured his ...
... single verse , than you will ever think of him in the whole course of your life . " Father Mabillon , who had been of a very narrow capacity in his youth , fell , at the age of twenty - six , against a stone stair - case , fractured his ...
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... single tone ; but change of time gives it variety and cheerfulness enough . The infirmity of falsifying our age is at least as old as Cicero , who , hearing one of his contemporaries attempting to make himself ten years younger than he ...
... single tone ; but change of time gives it variety and cheerfulness enough . The infirmity of falsifying our age is at least as old as Cicero , who , hearing one of his contemporaries attempting to make himself ten years younger than he ...
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... single grain of originality . Whether , therefore , they allow the ancients to be imitable ⚫or inimitable it is manifest that they only exalt them in order to lower their contemporaries , and that their suffrages would be reversed , if ...
... single grain of originality . Whether , therefore , they allow the ancients to be imitable ⚫or inimitable it is manifest that they only exalt them in order to lower their contemporaries , and that their suffrages would be reversed , if ...
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To which are Added, Poetical Selections Horace Smith. inflict a single injury . " To a certain extent this wish is often fulfilled , for the same writer observes , that anger is like a ruin , which , in falling upon its victim , breaks ...
To which are Added, Poetical Selections Horace Smith. inflict a single injury . " To a certain extent this wish is often fulfilled , for the same writer observes , that anger is like a ruin , which , in falling upon its victim , breaks ...
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