Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 5B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pagina's |
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Pagina 8
... scarcely any expense , concerts equal to those of the aristocracy . On such occasions the quiet street in which he lived was blocked up by coroneted chariots , and his little drawing - room was crowded with peers , peeresses , ministers ...
... scarcely any expense , concerts equal to those of the aristocracy . On such occasions the quiet street in which he lived was blocked up by coroneted chariots , and his little drawing - room was crowded with peers , peeresses , ministers ...
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... scarcely be said to have mingled . She was not a musician , and could therefore bear no part in the concerts . She was shy almost to awkwardness , and scarcely ever joined in the conversation . The slightest remark from a stranger ...
... scarcely be said to have mingled . She was not a musician , and could therefore bear no part in the concerts . She was shy almost to awkwardness , and scarcely ever joined in the conversation . The slightest remark from a stranger ...
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... scarcely make him rich . The task of providing for the family devolved on his wife . In the year 1796 , she published by subscription her third novel , Camilla . It was impatiently expected by the public ; and the sum which she obtained ...
... scarcely make him rich . The task of providing for the family devolved on his wife . In the year 1796 , she published by subscription her third novel , Camilla . It was impatiently expected by the public ; and the sum which she obtained ...
Pagina 54
... scarcely any monstrosity . The characters of which he has given us an impression , as vivid as that which we receive from the charac- ters of our own associates , are to be reckoned by scores . Yet in all these scores hardly one ...
... scarcely any monstrosity . The characters of which he has given us an impression , as vivid as that which we receive from the charac- ters of our own associates , are to be reckoned by scores . Yet in all these scores hardly one ...
Pagina 56
... scarcely left us a single caricature . Shakspeare has had neither equal nor second . But among the writers who , in the point which we have noticed , have approached nearest to the manner of the great master , we have no hesitation in ...
... scarcely left us a single caricature . Shakspeare has had neither equal nor second . But among the writers who , in the point which we have noticed , have approached nearest to the manner of the great master , we have no hesitation in ...
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