Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... conversation to his love of living as such , was due at least as much to his fearing men less , as to his fearing death more , than falls to the lot of or- dinary minds . Allowances of this kind must be made even whilst acknowledging to ...
... conversation to his love of living as such , was due at least as much to his fearing men less , as to his fearing death more , than falls to the lot of or- dinary minds . Allowances of this kind must be made even whilst acknowledging to ...
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... conversation , and began to mix much more than formerly in the best society . Under such influences his manners softened considerably , nor did his real tenderness of heart abate . It is said that of his pension he only spent some £ 70 ...
... conversation , and began to mix much more than formerly in the best society . Under such influences his manners softened considerably , nor did his real tenderness of heart abate . It is said that of his pension he only spent some £ 70 ...
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... conversation- intellectually the moral nature is ever pure within , and his mirth is as innocent as a child's . No other hand had strength and delicacy to put in such fine touches with so broad a pen . It may be well to caution the ...
... conversation- intellectually the moral nature is ever pure within , and his mirth is as innocent as a child's . No other hand had strength and delicacy to put in such fine touches with so broad a pen . It may be well to caution the ...
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... conversation . His being is in a twilight of sense , and some glimmering of thought , which he can never fashion into wit or English . His style is boisterous and rough hewn , his rhyme incor- rigibly lewd , and his numbers perpetually ...
... conversation . His being is in a twilight of sense , and some glimmering of thought , which he can never fashion into wit or English . His style is boisterous and rough hewn , his rhyme incor- rigibly lewd , and his numbers perpetually ...
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... conversation , but just such , and went so far as , by the natural turn of the conversa- 20 tion in which he was engaged , it was necessarily promoted or required . He was extremely ready and gentle in his correc- tion of the errors of ...
... conversation , but just such , and went so far as , by the natural turn of the conversa- 20 tion in which he was engaged , it was necessarily promoted or required . He was extremely ready and gentle in his correc- tion of the errors of ...
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