Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Volume 2W. Blackwood, 1819 - Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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... greatness is not blended with ideas sug- gested by the presence of some such edifice , pier- eing the sky in splendour or in gloom , far above 6 the frailer and lowlier habitations of those that come to 10 EDINBURGH ST GILES'S .
... greatness is not blended with ideas sug- gested by the presence of some such edifice , pier- eing the sky in splendour or in gloom , far above 6 the frailer and lowlier habitations of those that come to 10 EDINBURGH ST GILES'S .
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... idea of the lines and forms set forth in this unharmonious material . Making allowance for all this , however , I can scarcely bring myself to imagine , that the statue of Mel- ville will ever be thought to do honour to the genius of ...
... idea of the lines and forms set forth in this unharmonious material . Making allowance for all this , however , I can scarcely bring myself to imagine , that the statue of Mel- ville will ever be thought to do honour to the genius of ...
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... idea of intensest abstraction - and the whole head is such , that it might almost be pla- ced upon the bust of the Theseus , without offence to the majesty of that inimitable torso . The most wonderful circumstance is , that , unless ...
... idea of intensest abstraction - and the whole head is such , that it might almost be pla- ced upon the bust of the Theseus , without offence to the majesty of that inimitable torso . The most wonderful circumstance is , that , unless ...
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... into its circle . The stream of his discourse flowed on calmly and clearly ; the voice itself was mellow , yet com- manding ; the pronunciation exact , but not pe 1 - dantically so ; the ideas rose gradually out of each 54 MR CRANSTOUN .
... into its circle . The stream of his discourse flowed on calmly and clearly ; the voice itself was mellow , yet com- manding ; the pronunciation exact , but not pe 1 - dantically so ; the ideas rose gradually out of each 54 MR CRANSTOUN .
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John Gibson Lockhart. dantically so ; the ideas rose gradually out of each other , and seemed to clothe themselves in the best and most accurate of phraseology , with- out the exertion of a single thought in its selec- tion . The ...
John Gibson Lockhart. dantically so ; the ideas rose gradually out of each other , and seemed to clothe themselves in the best and most accurate of phraseology , with- out the exertion of a single thought in its selec- tion . The ...
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