The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 59Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1862 |
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... interest , aroused the latent curiosity of the reading public to investigate the mental phenomena of a writer who could produce two such remarkable works , revealing qualifications and mental attributes so absolutely distinct . For so ...
... interest , aroused the latent curiosity of the reading public to investigate the mental phenomena of a writer who could produce two such remarkable works , revealing qualifications and mental attributes so absolutely distinct . For so ...
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... interest which distin- guishes the most wonderful compositions of Poe , or the German Hoffman , or Zschokke in his ' Walpurgis Night ; ' and every incident in the book tends with directest certainty to the fulfilment of the main design ...
... interest which distin- guishes the most wonderful compositions of Poe , or the German Hoffman , or Zschokke in his ' Walpurgis Night ; ' and every incident in the book tends with directest certainty to the fulfilment of the main design ...
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... interest ; and this species of mental usury ever requires faculties of a peculiar kind . He is no mental parasite , sapping our very life - springs , and giving us no adequate remuneration ; for he gives back the world four - fold that ...
... interest ; and this species of mental usury ever requires faculties of a peculiar kind . He is no mental parasite , sapping our very life - springs , and giving us no adequate remuneration ; for he gives back the world four - fold that ...
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... interest enough to repeat here over seas ; for the library of a king fond of letters and art , and of a king of Prussia also , whose capital may count among the most enlightened places of earth , in our age , is worth look- ing into in ...
... interest enough to repeat here over seas ; for the library of a king fond of letters and art , and of a king of Prussia also , whose capital may count among the most enlightened places of earth , in our age , is worth look- ing into in ...
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... interest that she takes in them . Item , of Mrs. Wells , an elderly lady , second or third cousin to my husband , who lives with us , and ' sees to things ' a good deal . She it is who is deep in the mysteries of soap - making ; who ...
... interest that she takes in them . Item , of Mrs. Wells , an elderly lady , second or third cousin to my husband , who lives with us , and ' sees to things ' a good deal . She it is who is deep in the mysteries of soap - making ; who ...
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