Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... as remarkable for narrowness as for strength . He was no master of the great science of human nature . He had studied , not the genus man , but the species Londoner . No- THE SUPERIORITY OF LONDON C 6 6 53 body was 52 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
... as remarkable for narrowness as for strength . He was no master of the great science of human nature . He had studied , not the genus man , but the species Londoner . No- THE SUPERIORITY OF LONDON C 6 6 53 body was 52 SAMUEL JOHNSON.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. THE SUPERIORITY OF LONDON C 6 6 53 body was ever so thoroughly conversant with all the forms of life and of all the shades of moral and intel- lectual character which were to be seen from ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. THE SUPERIORITY OF LONDON C 6 6 53 body was ever so thoroughly conversant with all the forms of life and of all the shades of moral and intel- lectual character which were to be seen from ...
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... body , the huge massy face , seamed with the scars of disease , the brown coat , the black worsted stockings , the grey wig with the scorched foretop , the dirty hands , the nails bitten and pared to the quick . We see the eyes and ...
... body , the huge massy face , seamed with the scars of disease , the brown coat , the black worsted stockings , the grey wig with the scorched foretop , the dirty hands , the nails bitten and pared to the quick . We see the eyes and ...
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... shapes to terrify the adventurer . Thence he goes on , amidst the snares and pitfalls , with the mangled bodies of those who have perished lying in the ditch by his side . At the VOL . II . E end of the long dark valley he passes the dens.
... shapes to terrify the adventurer . Thence he goes on , amidst the snares and pitfalls , with the mangled bodies of those who have perished lying in the ditch by his side . At the VOL . II . E end of the long dark valley he passes the dens.
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... body and mind . He heard voices from heaven . He saw strange visions of distant hills , pleasant and sunny as his own Delectable Mountains . From those abodes he was shut out , and placed in a dark and horrible wilderness , where he ...
... body and mind . He heard voices from heaven . He saw strange visions of distant hills , pleasant and sunny as his own Delectable Mountains . From those abodes he was shut out , and placed in a dark and horrible wilderness , where he ...
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