MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 16Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris 1867 |
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... least some of these , by Art , the chances are that they will be filled , if we have energy , by avarice or ambition , if we want energy , by ennui . This is particularly true in great cities . Life is stifled and overtasked when it is ...
... least some of these , by Art , the chances are that they will be filled , if we have energy , by avarice or ambition , if we want energy , by ennui . This is particularly true in great cities . Life is stifled and overtasked when it is ...
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... least , and often a painting ; among us pure insensibility is perfectly common , and I imagine that of the people who may be found any day walking among the Elgin Marbles , or in the National Gallery , a consi- derable proportion would ...
... least , and often a painting ; among us pure insensibility is perfectly common , and I imagine that of the people who may be found any day walking among the Elgin Marbles , or in the National Gallery , a consi- derable proportion would ...
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... least your pocket does . I dared neither speak nor hold my tongue . Her death lies at the door of my cow- ardly folly and your villany . And she will be a ministering angel when you and I lie howling . " One is allowed to quote ...
... least your pocket does . I dared neither speak nor hold my tongue . Her death lies at the door of my cow- ardly folly and your villany . And she will be a ministering angel when you and I lie howling . " One is allowed to quote ...
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... least , that , if he was faithless in most things , he was faithful to them . Conspirators , often at the same time the most honest and the most credulous of men , are not difficult men to deceive . About this man there was a broad ...
... least , that , if he was faithless in most things , he was faithful to them . Conspirators , often at the same time the most honest and the most credulous of men , are not difficult men to deceive . About this man there was a broad ...
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... least twenty years . I have a new life before me . Can you understand all this ? " " Well ! well ! sir , " said James . " I was fresher and freer once , " said Arthur , " than you are now . In the old times , when Tom and I used to go ...
... least twenty years . I have a new life before me . Can you understand all this ? " " Well ! well ! sir , " said James . " I was fresher and freer once , " said Arthur , " than you are now . In the old times , when Tom and I used to go ...
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