Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings, Volume 2Harper and brothers, 1873 - 303 pages |
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... delicacy in repulse from a woman , than one so sensitive and so unhappily formed as he ) . We shall here give , as a counter lump of sugar to those old bitters , a passage from a letter writ- ten when he was twenty - one , in which he ...
... delicacy in repulse from a woman , than one so sensitive and so unhappily formed as he ) . We shall here give , as a counter lump of sugar to those old bitters , a passage from a letter writ- ten when he was twenty - one , in which he ...
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... confirming the scepticism attributed to him , and vindicating the Christian spirit with which it was accompanied . But it has not been remarked , that Pope , with a further delicacy , highly creditable GARTH , PHYSICIANS , ETC. 37.
... confirming the scepticism attributed to him , and vindicating the Christian spirit with which it was accompanied . But it has not been remarked , that Pope , with a further delicacy , highly creditable GARTH , PHYSICIANS , ETC. 37.
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... delicacy , highly creditable to all parties , has here celebrated , in one and the same stanza , his Tory and his Whig medical friend . The delicacy is carried to its utmost towards Arbuthnot also , when we consider that that learned ...
... delicacy , highly creditable to all parties , has here celebrated , in one and the same stanza , his Tory and his Whig medical friend . The delicacy is carried to its utmost towards Arbuthnot also , when we consider that that learned ...
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... delicacy ; otherwise he never would have given " ostentatious " Sunday dinners to poor authors , upon whose heads he took the opportu- nity of cracking sarcastic jokes ! But he was a dis- eased subject , and probably had a blood as bad ...
... delicacy ; otherwise he never would have given " ostentatious " Sunday dinners to poor authors , upon whose heads he took the opportu- nity of cracking sarcastic jokes ! But he was a dis- eased subject , and probably had a blood as bad ...
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... delicacy of reproof . GREAT and liberal is the magic of the bookstalls ; truly deserved is the title of cheap shops . Your second - hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasure which he dispenses ; far superior to most ...
... delicacy of reproof . GREAT and liberal is the magic of the bookstalls ; truly deserved is the title of cheap shops . Your second - hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasure which he dispenses ; far superior to most ...
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