The Tin Trumpet: Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish. To which are Added Poetical Selections, Volume 1E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1836 |
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... means incom- patible with a due regard to the Thespian art , which requires elaborate study , and to a heightening of the effect by profes- sional , or even mechanical aids . Vivid conception , and keen sensibility , will not of ...
... means incom- patible with a due regard to the Thespian art , which requires elaborate study , and to a heightening of the effect by profes- sional , or even mechanical aids . Vivid conception , and keen sensibility , will not of ...
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... mean my successor to reign by candle - light . " ADMIRATION - We always love those who admire us , says Rochefoucauld , —but we do not always love those whom we admire . From the latter clause an exception might have been made in favour ...
... mean my successor to reign by candle - light . " ADMIRATION - We always love those who admire us , says Rochefoucauld , —but we do not always love those whom we admire . From the latter clause an exception might have been made in favour ...
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... means of defence , is immediately lessened , when by its intemperate and reckless exercise , we would pervert it into a dangerous instrument of aggression . Blind and ungovernable rage , approaching to the nature of madness , not only ...
... means of defence , is immediately lessened , when by its intemperate and reckless exercise , we would pervert it into a dangerous instrument of aggression . Blind and ungovernable rage , approaching to the nature of madness , not only ...
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... means two , after reckoning or laying aside ten ; and our termination of ty , in the words twenty , thirty , & c . , comes from the Anglo - Saxon teg to draw ; so that twenty , or twainty , signifies two drawings , or that the fingers ...
... means two , after reckoning or laying aside ten ; and our termination of ty , in the words twenty , thirty , & c . , comes from the Anglo - Saxon teg to draw ; so that twenty , or twainty , signifies two drawings , or that the fingers ...
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... mean , degrading , contemptible , un - English , at the very time that it is openly practised in the Committee business of the House of Commons , in the elections at the East India House , and in those of al- most every club throughout ...
... mean , degrading , contemptible , un - English , at the very time that it is openly practised in the Committee business of the House of Commons , in the elections at the East India House , and in those of al- most every club throughout ...
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