Ernest Maltravers Or The EleusiniaJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1874 - 575 |
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... half sympathizing with the follies we satirize , there is a gusto in our paintings which atones for their exaggeration . As we grow older , we observe less , we reflect more ; and , like Frankenstein , we dissect in order to create ...
... half sympathizing with the follies we satirize , there is a gusto in our paintings which atones for their exaggeration . As we grow older , we observe less , we reflect more ; and , like Frankenstein , we dissect in order to create ...
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... half a guinea for your trouble . " The man advanced ; then halted ; again surveyed his guest , and said , " Are you quite alone , sir ? " " Quite . " " Probably you are known at *** ? ” " Not I. But what matters that to you ? I am a ...
... half a guinea for your trouble . " The man advanced ; then halted ; again surveyed his guest , and said , " Are you quite alone , sir ? " " Quite . " " Probably you are known at *** ? ” " Not I. But what matters that to you ? I am a ...
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... half smile upon her rosy lips . Alice's father looked hard first at one , then at the other . " Eat , sir , " said ... half a foreigner , and abroad , you know , one may say a civil thing to a pretty girl , without hurting her feelings ...
... half smile upon her rosy lips . Alice's father looked hard first at one , then at the other . " Eat , sir , " said ... half a foreigner , and abroad , you know , one may say a civil thing to a pretty girl , without hurting her feelings ...
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... half- dying and single candle threw into strong lights and shades the marked , rugged , and ferocious features of the cottager ; and the eye of the traveler , glancing from the face to the limbs and frame , saw that whatever of violence ...
... half- dying and single candle threw into strong lights and shades the marked , rugged , and ferocious features of the cottager ; and the eye of the traveler , glancing from the face to the limbs and frame , saw that whatever of violence ...
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... half hour , and I am on the moor : we must give him time . And in the mean while here is the poker . At the worst it is but one to one ; but the churl is strongly built . " Although the traveler thus endeavored to cheer his courage ...
... half hour , and I am on the moor : we must give him time . And in the mean while here is the poker . At the worst it is but one to one ; but the churl is strongly built . " Although the traveler thus endeavored to cheer his courage ...
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Strona 40 - Maltravers had abundant resources in himself. He placed Shakspeare and Schiller on his table, and lighted his German meerschaum — he read till he became inspired, and then he wrote — and when he had composed a few stanzas he was not contented till he had set them to music and tried their melody with his voice. For he had all the passion of a German for song and music— that wild Maltravers ! —and his voice was sweet, his taste consummate, his science profound. As the sun puts out a star, so...
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