Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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... talents , and in that respect he seems to have estimated himself very truly , as we rarely find such meek and modest qualities as he possessed in men of warmer ima- ginations , and a brighter glow of genius with less solidity of ...
... talents , and in that respect he seems to have estimated himself very truly , as we rarely find such meek and modest qualities as he possessed in men of warmer ima- ginations , and a brighter glow of genius with less solidity of ...
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... talents , and in that respect he seems to have estimated himself very truly , as we rarely find such meek and modest qualities as he possessed in men of warmer ima- ginations , and a brighter glow of genius with less solidity of ...
... talents , and in that respect he seems to have estimated himself very truly , as we rarely find such meek and modest qualities as he possessed in men of warmer ima- ginations , and a brighter glow of genius with less solidity of ...
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... talents upon criticism in- stead of employing them upon original com- position , he acknowledged the justice of her regret with extreme sensibility , and remained for a considerable time thoughtful and seem- ingly embarrassed by the ...
... talents upon criticism in- stead of employing them upon original com- position , he acknowledged the justice of her regret with extreme sensibility , and remained for a considerable time thoughtful and seem- ingly embarrassed by the ...
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... talents . His connexion with Mr. Horace Walpole , the late Lord Orford , had too much of the bitter of dependance in it to be gratifying to the taste of a man of his spirit and sensibility ; the one could not be abject , and the other ...
... talents . His connexion with Mr. Horace Walpole , the late Lord Orford , had too much of the bitter of dependance in it to be gratifying to the taste of a man of his spirit and sensibility ; the one could not be abject , and the other ...
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... talents I have been endowed with , and the uses I have put them to , and it shall be my serious study not to be found guilty of any partial estimates , any false appretiation of that self , either as author or man , which of necessity ...
... talents I have been endowed with , and the uses I have put them to , and it shall be my serious study not to be found guilty of any partial estimates , any false appretiation of that self , either as author or man , which of necessity ...
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