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... better in former publications , the praise and the abuse much stronger , & c . , but the new ones are capitally done . Horne Tooke is a matchless portrait . He has laid too many colours on my like- ness ; but I have had so much ...
... better in former publications , the praise and the abuse much stronger , & c . , but the new ones are capitally done . Horne Tooke is a matchless portrait . He has laid too many colours on my like- ness ; but I have had so much ...
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... better in Europe , best of all in the plains of Chili and the mines of Mexico . He has offered constitutions for the New World , and legislated for future times . The people of Westminster , where he lives , hardly dream of such a ...
... better in Europe , best of all in the plains of Chili and the mines of Mexico . He has offered constitutions for the New World , and legislated for future times . The people of Westminster , where he lives , hardly dream of such a ...
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... better ; but it is seldom that a criminal is not aware of the consequences of his act , or has not made up his mind to the alternative . They are , in general , too knowing by half . You tell a person of this stamp what is his interest ...
... better ; but it is seldom that a criminal is not aware of the consequences of his act , or has not made up his mind to the alternative . They are , in general , too knowing by half . You tell a person of this stamp what is his interest ...
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... better ( and only unattainable , because it is better ) in their stead , accuse him wrongfully . We may not be able to launch the bark of our affections on the ocean - tide of humanity , we may be forced to paddle along its shores , or ...
... better ( and only unattainable , because it is better ) in their stead , accuse him wrongfully . We may not be able to launch the bark of our affections on the ocean - tide of humanity , we may be forced to paddle along its shores , or ...
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... better than peeping into an old iron shop , or pilfering from a dealer in marine stores ! There is one draw- back , however , attending this mode of proceeding , which attaches generally , indeed , to all originality of composition ...
... better than peeping into an old iron shop , or pilfering from a dealer in marine stores ! There is one draw- back , however , attending this mode of proceeding , which attaches generally , indeed , to all originality of composition ...
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Page 307 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 226 - Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees, In fancy, fair St. Agnes in her bed, But dares not look behind, or all the charm is fled.
Page 114 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 247 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Page 226 - But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell.
Page 46 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.