Prose of the Romantic PeriodCarl Woodring Houghton Mifflin, 1961 - 600 pages Prose excerpts from the works of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walter Savage Landor, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Thomas de Quincey, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and others. |
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Page 210
... play or no ; and will desire an adversary , who has slipt a wrong card , to take it up and play another . These insufferable triflers are the curse of a table . One of these flies will spoil a whole pot . Of such it may be said , that ...
... play or no ; and will desire an adversary , who has slipt a wrong card , to take it up and play another . These insufferable triflers are the curse of a table . One of these flies will spoil a whole pot . Of such it may be said , that ...
Page 214
... play , without esteeming them to be such . With great deference to the old lady's judgment on these matters , I think I have experienced some moments in my life , when playing at cards for nothing has even been agreeable . When I am in ...
... play , without esteeming them to be such . With great deference to the old lady's judgment on these matters , I think I have experienced some moments in my life , when playing at cards for nothing has even been agreeable . When I am in ...
Page 227
... play socially that the relish of such exhibitions must be in proportion to the infrequency of going — that the company we met there , not being in general readers of plays , were obliged to attend the more , and did attend , to what was ...
... play socially that the relish of such exhibitions must be in proportion to the infrequency of going — that the company we met there , not being in general readers of plays , were obliged to attend the more , and did attend , to what was ...
Contents
JEREMY BENTHAM | 4 |
THOMAS PAINE | 11 |
THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS | 20 |
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