Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 10W. Blackwood., 1821 |
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Page 50
... never was happy , unless he saw the world gaping like a stuck pig . With respect to his murdering Begbie , as it is called , he knew the poor man well , and had fre- quently given him both small sums of money , and articles of wearing ...
... never was happy , unless he saw the world gaping like a stuck pig . With respect to his murdering Begbie , as it is called , he knew the poor man well , and had fre- quently given him both small sums of money , and articles of wearing ...
Page 51
... never to intrust book sellers with their manuscripts . " " I was unlucky in the publication of my first novel , and what impeded me still farther , was the publication of Old Mor- tality ; for , having made the redoubted Burly the hero ...
... never to intrust book sellers with their manuscripts . " " I was unlucky in the publication of my first novel , and what impeded me still farther , was the publication of Old Mor- tality ; for , having made the redoubted Burly the hero ...
Page 60
... never could be properly performed . We think , however the experiment might have been made , and Miss Dance , in the part of Splen- dora , would have been a most lovely and interesting representative , parti- cularly in the mad scene ...
... never could be properly performed . We think , however the experiment might have been made , and Miss Dance , in the part of Splen- dora , would have been a most lovely and interesting representative , parti- cularly in the mad scene ...
Page 69
... never mind books , but to borrow . Let the ideas play around self , and that is the way to please the selfish reader - other read- ers there are not in the world . It is vulgarly supposed , that a man , who is always thinking and ...
... never mind books , but to borrow . Let the ideas play around self , and that is the way to please the selfish reader - other read- ers there are not in the world . It is vulgarly supposed , that a man , who is always thinking and ...
Page 70
... never had a friend . He despised poetry - so do I ; he despised book- learning - 1 know nothing about it ; he did not care for the great - the great do not care for me . What further traits of resemblance would you have ? -his breeches ...
... never had a friend . He despised poetry - so do I ; he despised book- learning - 1 know nothing about it ; he did not care for the great - the great do not care for me . What further traits of resemblance would you have ? -his breeches ...
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