The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Extracts and Masterpieces from Their Writings, Comprising the Best Features of Many Celebrated Compilations, Notably the Guernsey Collection, the De Puy Collection, the Ridpath Collection, All Carefully Rev. and Arranged by a Corps of the Most Capable Scholars, Volume 21John Clark Ridpath Globe Publishing Company, 1898 - Literature |
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... true , she averred , Who would rob a poor bird of its young ; And I loved her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue . I have heard her with sweetness unfold How that pity was due to a dove ; That it ever attended ...
... true , she averred , Who would rob a poor bird of its young ; And I loved her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue . I have heard her with sweetness unfold How that pity was due to a dove ; That it ever attended ...
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... true , egad ! though he's my friend . Sneer . Then his affected contempt of all newspaper strictures ; though , at the same time , he is the poorest man alive , and shrinks like a scorched parchment from the fiery ordeals of true ...
... true , egad ! though he's my friend . Sneer . Then his affected contempt of all newspaper strictures ; though , at the same time , he is the poorest man alive , and shrinks like a scorched parchment from the fiery ordeals of true ...
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... true criticism . Yet he is so covet- ous of popularity that he had rather be abused than not mentioned at all . Dan . - There's no denying it ; though he is my friend . Sneer . You have read the tragedy he has just fin- ished , haven't ...
... true criticism . Yet he is so covet- ous of popularity that he had rather be abused than not mentioned at all . Dan . - There's no denying it ; though he is my friend . Sneer . You have read the tragedy he has just fin- ished , haven't ...
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... true . Why , then , though I seriously admire the piece upon the whole , yet there is one small objection which , if you'll give me leave , I'll men- tion . Sir Fret . - Sir , you can't oblige me more . Sneer . - I think it wants ...
... true . Why , then , though I seriously admire the piece upon the whole , yet there is one small objection which , if you'll give me leave , I'll men- tion . Sir Fret . - Sir , you can't oblige me more . Sneer . - I think it wants ...
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... true ; and that attack , now , on you the other day— - Sir Fret . - What ? Where ? Dan . - Ay , you mean in a paper of Thursday ; it was completely ill - natured , to be sure . Sir Fret . - Oh , so much the better RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN.
... true ; and that attack , now , on you the other day— - Sir Fret . - What ? Where ? Dan . - Ay , you mean in a paper of Thursday ; it was completely ill - natured , to be sure . Sir Fret . - Oh , so much the better RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN.
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