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Page 10
... young village painter , of whom he had read when a boy . He had succeeded in painting to the perfect satisfaction of Boniface , the sign of a Red Lion , which adorned a village ale- house of that name . The squire of the hamlet ...
... young village painter , of whom he had read when a boy . He had succeeded in painting to the perfect satisfaction of Boniface , the sign of a Red Lion , which adorned a village ale- house of that name . The squire of the hamlet ...
Page 14
... young spirit on is lessened , and the beaten path is of course preferred to the labor of making another track in a new direction . Mr. Cooper's novels of Mercedes of Castile and the Bravo of Venice , are evidences that he has tried ...
... young spirit on is lessened , and the beaten path is of course preferred to the labor of making another track in a new direction . Mr. Cooper's novels of Mercedes of Castile and the Bravo of Venice , are evidences that he has tried ...
Page 55
... young pines and budding birches , But finds not the budding man ; Nature who lost him , cannot remake him , Fate let him fall , fate can't retake him ; Nature , fate , men , him seek in vain . ” An American critic well observes on this ...
... young pines and budding birches , But finds not the budding man ; Nature who lost him , cannot remake him , Fate let him fall , fate can't retake him ; Nature , fate , men , him seek in vain . ” An American critic well observes on this ...
Page 66
... young and poor we are roused to activity : we grow old and rich , and consequently yearn for repose . Reform is the activity of nations ; conservatism its repose ; and aristocracy its indolence . His third essay is his finest , and from ...
... young and poor we are roused to activity : we grow old and rich , and consequently yearn for repose . Reform is the activity of nations ; conservatism its repose ; and aristocracy its indolence . His third essay is his finest , and from ...
Page 67
... . We remember in our young days that Lamb was attacked by a very solemn man ( who only wanted the fairy head of Bottom , the weaver , to be the " complete animal " ) , in these words : - " Mr . Lamb , you are RALPH WALDO 67 EMERSON .
... . We remember in our young days that Lamb was attacked by a very solemn man ( who only wanted the fairy head of Bottom , the weaver , to be the " complete animal " ) , in these words : - " Mr . Lamb , you are RALPH WALDO 67 EMERSON .
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