Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 5B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pagina's |
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Pagina 24
... close a comparison with Molière . This opinion , in which Dr. Burney concurred , was sent to Frances , in what she called " a hissing , groaning , catcalling epistle . " But she had too much sense not to know that it was better to be ...
... close a comparison with Molière . This opinion , in which Dr. Burney concurred , was sent to Frances , in what she called " a hissing , groaning , catcalling epistle . " But she had too much sense not to know that it was better to be ...
Pagina 29
... close a prisoner as if she had been sent to gaol for a libel ; that with talents which had instructed and delighted the highest living minds , she should now be employed only in mixing snuff and sticking pins ; that she should be ...
... close a prisoner as if she had been sent to gaol for a libel ; that with talents which had instructed and delighted the highest living minds , she should now be employed only in mixing snuff and sticking pins ; that she should be ...
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... close , by rapidly recounting the most important events which we know to have befallen Madame D'Arblay during the latter part of her life . M. D'Arblay's fortune had perished in the general wreck of the French Revolution ; and in a ...
... close , by rapidly recounting the most important events which we know to have befallen Madame D'Arblay during the latter part of her life . M. D'Arblay's fortune had perished in the general wreck of the French Revolution ; and in a ...
Pagina 62
... close attention to business and love of money , though he seems himself to have no talents , spirit , or generosity to make him superior to either . His chief delight appears to be in tormenting and ridiculing his sisters , who in ...
... close attention to business and love of money , though he seems himself to have no talents , spirit , or generosity to make him superior to either . His chief delight appears to be in tormenting and ridiculing his sisters , who in ...
Pagina 84
... close of the Minister's letter was remarkable . " I am called , " he said , " an enemy of the Church . But I will never do it any other injury than keeping Mr. Addison out of it . " This interference was successful ; and , in the summer ...
... close of the Minister's letter was remarkable . " I am called , " he said , " an enemy of the Church . But I will never do it any other injury than keeping Mr. Addison out of it . " This interference was successful ; and , in the summer ...
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