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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... reputation of Madame de Sévigné . — Un- satisfactory biographies of her . Her parentage , education , and early life . - Description of her person and manners . - United with the Marquis de Sévigné . - His frivolities and death ...
... reputation of Madame de Sévigné . — Un- satisfactory biographies of her . Her parentage , education , and early life . - Description of her person and manners . - United with the Marquis de Sévigné . - His frivolities and death ...
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... reputation Jonson's success was perhaps injurious , and whose minds , at least , seem to have been embittered by it . Horace , Ovid , Aristophanes , and twenty other poets , have praised themselves more highly than he did . Mil- ton ...
... reputation Jonson's success was perhaps injurious , and whose minds , at least , seem to have been embittered by it . Horace , Ovid , Aristophanes , and twenty other poets , have praised themselves more highly than he did . Mil- ton ...
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... reputation of being as orthodox a Christian in belief as in practice . The modesty of his charity is thus taxed to its height , and therefore as highly complimented , by the ex- cessive praise bestowed on the Christian spirit of the ...
... reputation of being as orthodox a Christian in belief as in practice . The modesty of his charity is thus taxed to its height , and therefore as highly complimented , by the ex- cessive praise bestowed on the Christian spirit of the ...
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... in regard to money matters , and , com- monly speaking , in all others . Blackmore himself , however dull as a poet and pedantic as a moralist , * enjoyed , we believe , the usual reputation of the LOVE - LETTERS . 41.
... in regard to money matters , and , com- monly speaking , in all others . Blackmore himself , however dull as a poet and pedantic as a moralist , * enjoyed , we believe , the usual reputation of the LOVE - LETTERS . 41.
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... reputation of the faculty for benevolence . We know not whether 66 66 Cowley is to be mentioned among the physicians who have taken their degrees in wit or poetry , for perhaps he never practised . But the annals of our minor poetry ...
... reputation of the faculty for benevolence . We know not whether 66 66 Cowley is to be mentioned among the physicians who have taken their degrees in wit or poetry , for perhaps he never practised . But the annals of our minor poetry ...
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