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... better it is , that a writer should be natural in a self - pleasing quaintness , than to affect a naturalness ( so called ) that should be strange to him . Egotistical they have been pronounced by some who did not know , that what he ...
... better it is , that a writer should be natural in a self - pleasing quaintness , than to affect a naturalness ( so called ) that should be strange to him . Egotistical they have been pronounced by some who did not know , that what he ...
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... better passion than envy : and contemplations on the great and good , whom we fancy in succession to have been its inhabitants , weave for us illusions , incompatible with the bustle of modern occupancy , and vanities of foolish pre ...
... better passion than envy : and contemplations on the great and good , whom we fancy in succession to have been its inhabitants , weave for us illusions , incompatible with the bustle of modern occupancy , and vanities of foolish pre ...
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... better than painting - not adorn- ing merely , but peopling the wainscots - at which childhood ever and anon would steal a look , shift- ing its coverlid ( replaced as quickly ) to exercise its tender courage in a momentary eye ...
... better than painting - not adorn- ing merely , but peopling the wainscots - at which childhood ever and anon would steal a look , shift- ing its coverlid ( replaced as quickly ) to exercise its tender courage in a momentary eye ...
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... tolerably well ; but your indigent she - relative is hopeless . " He is an old humourist , " you may say , " and affects to go threadbare . His circumstances are case . better than folks would take them to be POOR RELATIONS . II.
... tolerably well ; but your indigent she - relative is hopeless . " He is an old humourist , " you may say , " and affects to go threadbare . His circumstances are case . better than folks would take them to be POOR RELATIONS . II.
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Charles Lamb Augustine Birrell. case . better than folks would take them to be . You are fond of having a Character at your table , and truly he is one . " But in the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise . No woman ...
Charles Lamb Augustine Birrell. case . better than folks would take them to be . You are fond of having a Character at your table , and truly he is one . " But in the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise . No woman ...
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