Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings, Volume 2Smith, Elder and Company, 1847 - Beauty, Personal |
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... Insincerity not always what it is taken for . - Whigs , Tories , and Catholics.- Masterly exposition of the reason why people live uncomfort- ably together . " Rondeaulx , " and a Rondeau . 17 III . GARTH , PHYSICIANS , AND LOVE - LETTERS.
... Insincerity not always what it is taken for . - Whigs , Tories , and Catholics.- Masterly exposition of the reason why people live uncomfort- ably together . " Rondeaulx , " and a Rondeau . 17 III . GARTH , PHYSICIANS , AND LOVE - LETTERS.
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... Whig ) .— Thomson's behaviour to Lady Hertford . - His answer to the genius - starvation principle . His letters to his friends , & c . 51 V. BOOKSTALLS AND " GALATEO . " Beneficence of Bookstalls.- " Galateo , or a Treatise on Polite ...
... Whig ) .— Thomson's behaviour to Lady Hertford . - His answer to the genius - starvation principle . His letters to his friends , & c . 51 V. BOOKSTALLS AND " GALATEO . " Beneficence of Bookstalls.- " Galateo , or a Treatise on Polite ...
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... the greater names of truth and justice . Amicus , Ben Jonson ; amicus every clever critic , whether in Whig paper or Tory ; but magis amica , Proof . If asked to give our opinion of Ben Jonson's powers 14 SOCIAL MORALITY .
... the greater names of truth and justice . Amicus , Ben Jonson ; amicus every clever critic , whether in Whig paper or Tory ; but magis amica , Proof . If asked to give our opinion of Ben Jonson's powers 14 SOCIAL MORALITY .
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... Whigs , Tories , and Catholics . —Masterly exposition of the reason why people live uncom- fortably together .- " Rondeaulx , " and a Rondeau . THOSE Who have been conversant in early life with Pope and the other wits of Queen Anne ...
... Whigs , Tories , and Catholics . —Masterly exposition of the reason why people live uncom- fortably together .- " Rondeaulx , " and a Rondeau . THOSE Who have been conversant in early life with Pope and the other wits of Queen Anne ...
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... Whigs and all Tories had the spirit of one Roman Catholic I know ( his friend Edward Blount , to whom he is writing ) , it would be well for all Roman Catholics ; and if all Roman Catholics had always had that spirit , it had been well ...
... Whigs and all Tories had the spirit of one Roman Catholic I know ( his friend Edward Blount , to whom he is writing ) , it would be well for all Roman Catholics ; and if all Roman Catholics had always had that spirit , it had been well ...
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