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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... heart , as to the grace and dignity of his style and imagination . But even his friends as well as enemies thought him immodest and arrogant , and publicly lamented it . See what Randolph and Carew , as well as Owen Feltham , say of him ...
... heart , as to the grace and dignity of his style and imagination . But even his friends as well as enemies thought him immodest and arrogant , and publicly lamented it . See what Randolph and Carew , as well as Owen Feltham , say of him ...
Page 31
... hearts ; and believe , in- deed , that a woman is in luck who has the wit to discern their lovability ; for it begets her a like affection , and shows that her own nature is worthy of it . This volume of Letters is the one that was ...
... hearts ; and believe , in- deed , that a woman is in luck who has the wit to discern their lovability ; for it begets her a like affection , and shows that her own nature is worthy of it . This volume of Letters is the one that was ...
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... heart and purse ( which he could moderately afford ) were ever open to his friends , let his assertions to that effect be taken by a shallow and envious cunning in as much evidence to the contrary as it pleases . He was manifestly kind ...
... heart and purse ( which he could moderately afford ) were ever open to his friends , let his assertions to that effect be taken by a shallow and envious cunning in as much evidence to the contrary as it pleases . He was manifestly kind ...
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... heart was good . Of Armstrong and Akenside we are not aware that any particular instances of generosity have been recorded , but they both had the usual reputation for benevo- lence , and wrote of it as if they deserved it . Aken- side ...
... heart was good . Of Armstrong and Akenside we are not aware that any particular instances of generosity have been recorded , but they both had the usual reputation for benevo- lence , and wrote of it as if they deserved it . Aken- side ...
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... heart and behaviour do good , as well as his prescriptions , he possesses that humi- lity in his knowledge which candidly owns the limit of it , and which is at once the proudest , most modest , and most engaging proof of his ...
... heart and behaviour do good , as well as his prescriptions , he possesses that humi- lity in his knowledge which candidly owns the limit of it , and which is at once the proudest , most modest , and most engaging proof of his ...
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