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... perhaps the most sparkling prose - writer of the present day . To whatever department of criticism he turns his versatile attention , he is sure of illuminating the objects in survey with the rainbow tints of fancy , and with a dazzling ...
... perhaps the most sparkling prose - writer of the present day . To whatever department of criticism he turns his versatile attention , he is sure of illuminating the objects in survey with the rainbow tints of fancy , and with a dazzling ...
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... Perhaps when still , her eyelids were rather heavy , but genius suddenly sparkled in her eyes , her looks glowed with a noble fire , and announced like lightning the thunder of her words . At the same time , she had neither in her ...
... Perhaps when still , her eyelids were rather heavy , but genius suddenly sparkled in her eyes , her looks glowed with a noble fire , and announced like lightning the thunder of her words . At the same time , she had neither in her ...
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... perhaps not a first - rate man , and his abilities seem to have been exerted in the sphere for which they were best fitted . He did not possess genius , unless his taste for mechanical pursuits ( in which , however , he never made any ...
... perhaps not a first - rate man , and his abilities seem to have been exerted in the sphere for which they were best fitted . He did not possess genius , unless his taste for mechanical pursuits ( in which , however , he never made any ...
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