The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume 32Henry Colburn and Company, 1831 - English literature |
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... character is stamped upon it . Yet it is free from any acerbity , which indeed is no ingredient of his nature , but has a directness and spirit of plain dealing which indicates that he would not give himself the trouble of disguising ...
... character is stamped upon it . Yet it is free from any acerbity , which indeed is no ingredient of his nature , but has a directness and spirit of plain dealing which indicates that he would not give himself the trouble of disguising ...
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... character of his constituents and violated a pruden- tial taciturnity . I did not hear him , but have understood that it was exceedingly improbable that the House would ever permit such a deviation from his parliamentary character again ...
... character of his constituents and violated a pruden- tial taciturnity . I did not hear him , but have understood that it was exceedingly improbable that the House would ever permit such a deviation from his parliamentary character again ...
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... character . We are in grain an aristocracy - loving people , and shall be , so long as money and rank con- fer distinction ; that is , so long as we are Englishmen . And they , therefore , who would fain persuade us , that to admit the ...
... character . We are in grain an aristocracy - loving people , and shall be , so long as money and rank con- fer distinction ; that is , so long as we are Englishmen . And they , therefore , who would fain persuade us , that to admit the ...
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... character , betraying in its elaborate and measured cadences , marble coldness , and unbroken monotony of tone , the man of art , whose highest ambition was to be rated the " first gentleman in Europe , ” ( in the dancing - master's ...
... character , betraying in its elaborate and measured cadences , marble coldness , and unbroken monotony of tone , the man of art , whose highest ambition was to be rated the " first gentleman in Europe , ” ( in the dancing - master's ...
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... that native elevation of * Some of the sentences which follow ( marked by inverted commas , ) are taken from a portrait of Mrs. Siddons , dated 1812 . character , and general literary taste which strike us in 28 Mrs. Siddons .
... that native elevation of * Some of the sentences which follow ( marked by inverted commas , ) are taken from a portrait of Mrs. Siddons , dated 1812 . character , and general literary taste which strike us in 28 Mrs. Siddons .
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