Miscellaneous Works, Volumen1Claxton, Remsen & Hoffelfinger, 1869 |
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... pretensions , to be always dragging them forward into the fore - ground , as if the pro- verb held here — Out of sight out of mind . Does the author in question conceive that no one would ever think of his poetry , unless he forced it ...
... pretensions , to be always dragging them forward into the fore - ground , as if the pro- verb held here — Out of sight out of mind . Does the author in question conceive that no one would ever think of his poetry , unless he forced it ...
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... pretensions deserved . There are some admirable scenes in Ben Jonson's Volpone , showing the humours of a legacy - hunter , and the different ways of putting him off with excuses and assurances of not being forgotten . Yet it is hardly ...
... pretensions deserved . There are some admirable scenes in Ben Jonson's Volpone , showing the humours of a legacy - hunter , and the different ways of putting him off with excuses and assurances of not being forgotten . Yet it is hardly ...
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... pretension and for self - deceit . They take an epic motto or subject , and conclude that the spirit is implied as a thing of course . They paint inferior portraits , maudlin lifeless faces , without ordinary expression , or one look ...
... pretension and for self - deceit . They take an epic motto or subject , and conclude that the spirit is implied as a thing of course . They paint inferior portraits , maudlin lifeless faces , without ordinary expression , or one look ...
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... pretensions , and become indefinitely respectable and negatively right - worshipful . We baffle prejudice and disappoint conjecture ; and from being so to others , begin to be objects of curiosity and wonder even to ourselves . We are ...
... pretensions , and become indefinitely respectable and negatively right - worshipful . We baffle prejudice and disappoint conjecture ; and from being so to others , begin to be objects of curiosity and wonder even to ourselves . We are ...
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... pretensions of the second . Hence there arises not only an antipathy to common sense and decency in those things where there is a real opposition of interest or clashing of prejudice , but it becomes a habit and a favourite amusement in ...
... pretensions of the second . Hence there arises not only an antipathy to common sense and decency in those things where there is a real opposition of interest or clashing of prejudice , but it becomes a habit and a favourite amusement in ...
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