The British Essayists: The LoungerJ. Richardson, 1823 |
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... live- lihood - Dream of such an institution in Britain · • Anonymous . Abercromby 48. The sentiment and moral of time - Reflec- tions occasioned by the beginning of another year 49. Observations on comedy 50. The same subject continued ...
... live- lihood - Dream of such an institution in Britain · • Anonymous . Abercromby 48. The sentiment and moral of time - Reflec- tions occasioned by the beginning of another year 49. Observations on comedy 50. The same subject continued ...
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... live on air , can- not subsist in vacuo : and the idler of a higher sort needs perhaps more ideas , more store of mind about him , than would go to the furnishing of twenty brains of mere plodding men of business . The Lounger feels for ...
... live on air , can- not subsist in vacuo : and the idler of a higher sort needs perhaps more ideas , more store of mind about him , than would go to the furnishing of twenty brains of mere plodding men of business . The Lounger feels for ...
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... live for ever , ranked with those whose envied lot it had been to inform , to enlighten , to delight mankind ; while his patrons , distinguished only by rank or station , were buried in oblivion with the common herd of kings , ministers ...
... live for ever , ranked with those whose envied lot it had been to inform , to enlighten , to delight mankind ; while his patrons , distinguished only by rank or station , were buried in oblivion with the common herd of kings , ministers ...
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... lives , ' said he , is there any table for the life of a beauty ? ' I believe not , ' said I , smiling ; ' there is a ... live . Here I am as splenetic as before I was melancholy . Those flower - beds we see , so fair to look on , -what ...
... lives , ' said he , is there any table for the life of a beauty ? ' I believe not , ' said I , smiling ; ' there is a ... live . Here I am as splenetic as before I was melancholy . Those flower - beds we see , so fair to look on , -what ...
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... live again ! I loved Maria : -Severely as I am now disposed to review my past conduct , I cannot reproach myself with a failure in affection . But what human being could have been insensible to loveliness , to worth , to tenderness like ...
... live again ! I loved Maria : -Severely as I am now disposed to review my past conduct , I cannot reproach myself with a failure in affection . But what human being could have been insensible to loveliness , to worth , to tenderness like ...
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