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Pagina 216
... told ; and when it might be told , it is no longer known . The delicate features of the mind , the nice discriminations of character , and the minute peculiarities of conduct , are soon obliterated ; and it is surely better that caprice ...
... told ; and when it might be told , it is no longer known . The delicate features of the mind , the nice discriminations of character , and the minute peculiarities of conduct , are soon obliterated ; and it is surely better that caprice ...
Pagina 388
... told with sweetness ; but a new metamorphosis is a ready and puerile expedient : nothing is easier than to tell how a flower was once a blooming virgin , or a rock an obdurate tyrant . The Temple of Fame has , as Steele warmly declared ...
... told with sweetness ; but a new metamorphosis is a ready and puerile expedient : nothing is easier than to tell how a flower was once a blooming virgin , or a rock an obdurate tyrant . The Temple of Fame has , as Steele warmly declared ...
Pagina 469
... told that " Cadwallo hush'd the stormy main , " and that " Modred made huge Plinlimmon bow his cloud - topp'd head , " attention recoils from the repetition of a tale that , even when it was first heard , was heard with scorn . The ...
... told that " Cadwallo hush'd the stormy main , " and that " Modred made huge Plinlimmon bow his cloud - topp'd head , " attention recoils from the repetition of a tale that , even when it was first heard , was heard with scorn . The ...
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