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... minds , or rather , as I shrewdly suspect , their insipidity and want of feeling or obser- vation , may make them ... mind , the passions , and what not . ' So wrote Gray of the novels , French and English , of his day , but to no ...
... minds , or rather , as I shrewdly suspect , their insipidity and want of feeling or obser- vation , may make them ... mind , the passions , and what not . ' So wrote Gray of the novels , French and English , of his day , but to no ...
Page 355
... mind who can look on ugliness , infirmity , or poverty as ridiculous in themselves ; but when ugliness aims at the applause of beauty , or lameness endeavours to display its agility , it is then that these unfortunate circumstances ...
... mind who can look on ugliness , infirmity , or poverty as ridiculous in themselves ; but when ugliness aims at the applause of beauty , or lameness endeavours to display its agility , it is then that these unfortunate circumstances ...
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... mind , for we fear the evil effects of his example , and are sorry the black patches should heighten the beauty . 6 ' The stories he reads , ' says Mr. Thackeray , speaking of the objections urged by the critic , and the characters ...
... mind , for we fear the evil effects of his example , and are sorry the black patches should heighten the beauty . 6 ' The stories he reads , ' says Mr. Thackeray , speaking of the objections urged by the critic , and the characters ...
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... mind instead of fifty , and that a dozen dissimilar fruits cannot be gathered in successive crops from the same tree . Those who , ambitious of the praise of variety , have endeavoured altogether to change their hand , have usually ...
... mind instead of fifty , and that a dozen dissimilar fruits cannot be gathered in successive crops from the same tree . Those who , ambitious of the praise of variety , have endeavoured altogether to change their hand , have usually ...
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... minds which are incapable of appreciating more sterling qualities . Mr. Thackeray has simply been faithful to the instincts of his genius . The true and the probable are his domain , and he intuitively casts aside whatever offends ...
... minds which are incapable of appreciating more sterling qualities . Mr. Thackeray has simply been faithful to the instincts of his genius . The true and the probable are his domain , and he intuitively casts aside whatever offends ...
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