Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volumen1T. Boys, 1826 - 360 páginas |
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... carry the notion of wit so far , as to ascribe it even to external mimicry ; and to look upon a man as an ingenious person , that can re- semble the tone , posture , or face of another . - Addison . VIII . There never was any party ...
... carry the notion of wit so far , as to ascribe it even to external mimicry ; and to look upon a man as an ingenious person , that can re- semble the tone , posture , or face of another . - Addison . VIII . There never was any party ...
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... carry an air of supe- riority over the rest of the company , and therefore is most likely to please them ; for this purpose we should store our memory with short anecdotes and entertaining pieces of history . Almost every one listens ...
... carry an air of supe- riority over the rest of the company , and therefore is most likely to please them ; for this purpose we should store our memory with short anecdotes and entertaining pieces of history . Almost every one listens ...
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... carried merely by instinct , as a rat to the best cheese , or a wasp to the fairest flower . Lastly , I define a true critic to be , in the perusal of a book , like a dog at a feast , whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what ...
... carried merely by instinct , as a rat to the best cheese , or a wasp to the fairest flower . Lastly , I define a true critic to be , in the perusal of a book , like a dog at a feast , whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what ...
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... carry them a shorter way to riches and honour , disappoint them of both for ever , and make plain their ruin is from themselves , and that they eat the fruits which their own hands have watered and ripened . Sterne . CCCVII . I think ...
... carry them a shorter way to riches and honour , disappoint them of both for ever , and make plain their ruin is from themselves , and that they eat the fruits which their own hands have watered and ripened . Sterne . CCCVII . I think ...
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... carried away by the two grand preservatives of matrimonial friendship , delicacy and gratitude . There is also another distemper very mortal to the honey - moon , ' tis what the ladies sometimes are seized with , and the college of ...
... carried away by the two grand preservatives of matrimonial friendship , delicacy and gratitude . There is also another distemper very mortal to the honey - moon , ' tis what the ladies sometimes are seized with , and the college of ...
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