The English Humourists: The Four GeorgesJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1912 - 423 páginas |
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... truth : it was because the English and the Americans — the people of New Orleans a year ago , the people of Aberdeen a week ago — all received and acknowledged , with due allegiance , the great claims to honour which that lady has , who ...
... truth : it was because the English and the Americans — the people of New Orleans a year ago , the people of Aberdeen a week ago — all received and acknowledged , with due allegiance , the great claims to honour which that lady has , who ...
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... Truth to her old cavern fled , Mountains of casuistry heaped o'er her head ; Philosophy that leaned on Heaven before , Shrinks to her second cause and is no more . Religion , blushing , veils her sacred fires , And , unawares , Morality ...
... Truth to her old cavern fled , Mountains of casuistry heaped o'er her head ; Philosophy that leaned on Heaven before , Shrinks to her second cause and is no more . Religion , blushing , veils her sacred fires , And , unawares , Morality ...
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... Truth and Poetry ; from my own Life . ( English Translation , vol , i . pp . 378 , 379. ) " He seems from infancy to have been compounded of two natures , one bright , the other blundering ; or to have had fairy gifts laid in his cradle ...
... Truth and Poetry ; from my own Life . ( English Translation , vol , i . pp . 378 , 379. ) " He seems from infancy to have been compounded of two natures , one bright , the other blundering ; or to have had fairy gifts laid in his cradle ...
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