Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volumen1T. Boys, 1826 - 360 páginas |
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... nature . — Shenstone . XXXIV . If a strong attachment to a particular subject , a total ignorance of every other ; an eagerness to introduce that subject upon all occasions , and a confirmed habit of de- claiming upon it without either ...
... nature . — Shenstone . XXXIV . If a strong attachment to a particular subject , a total ignorance of every other ; an eagerness to introduce that subject upon all occasions , and a confirmed habit of de- claiming upon it without either ...
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... nature can give a sincere pleasure : where that is not imitated , ' tis grotesque paint- ing ; the fine wonian ends in a fish's tail . — Dryden . XLII . When a philosopher has once laid hold of a favourite principle , which , perhaps ...
... nature can give a sincere pleasure : where that is not imitated , ' tis grotesque paint- ing ; the fine wonian ends in a fish's tail . — Dryden . XLII . When a philosopher has once laid hold of a favourite principle , which , perhaps ...
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... nature.— Shenstone . XLIX . No man is the wiser for his learning : it may administer matter to work in , or objects ... natural tendency in the one to a melancholy moroseness , and in the other to a fantastic levity . - Addison . LII ...
... nature.— Shenstone . XLIX . No man is the wiser for his learning : it may administer matter to work in , or objects ... natural tendency in the one to a melancholy moroseness , and in the other to a fantastic levity . - Addison . LII ...
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... nature's productions , either for beauty or value . Art is only the under - workman , and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master . Some of which may 14 LACONICS ...
... nature's productions , either for beauty or value . Art is only the under - workman , and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master . Some of which may 14 LACONICS ...
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... nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art . Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself , particularly being free from flatterers ...
... nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art . Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself , particularly being free from flatterers ...
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