The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volumen2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1876 |
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... never be supplied . He was so unlike any other being one ever sees , and his visits amongst us were a sort of re- freshment which served not a little to enliven and cheer our monotonous way of life ; but now day after day rises and sets ...
... never be supplied . He was so unlike any other being one ever sees , and his visits amongst us were a sort of re- freshment which served not a little to enliven and cheer our monotonous way of life ; but now day after day rises and sets ...
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... never will give a proof of my spirit at expense of my understanding . the Ever yours most truly T. B. MACAULAY . London : August 14 , 1838 . Dear Napier , -Your old friend Wallace and I have been pretty near exchanging shots . However ...
... never will give a proof of my spirit at expense of my understanding . the Ever yours most truly T. B. MACAULAY . London : August 14 , 1838 . Dear Napier , -Your old friend Wallace and I have been pretty near exchanging shots . However ...
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... never written a page of criticism on poetry , or the fine arts , which I would not burn if I had the power . Hazlitt used to say of himself , " I am nothing if not criti- cal . " The case with me is directly the reverse . I have a ...
... never written a page of criticism on poetry , or the fine arts , which I would not burn if I had the power . Hazlitt used to say of himself , " I am nothing if not criti- cal . " The case with me is directly the reverse . I have a ...
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... never make the experiment again . I begged them not to imagine that I thought a place which Mackintosh had been anxious to obtain beneath me . Very far from it . I admitted it to be above the market price of my services ; but it was ...
... never make the experiment again . I begged them not to imagine that I thought a place which Mackintosh had been anxious to obtain beneath me . Very far from it . I admitted it to be above the market price of my services ; but it was ...
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... never in my life saw , and never , I suppose , shall again see , anything so astonishingly beautiful . I really could have cried with pleasure . I rambled about for half an hour or more , paying little or no attention to details , but ...
... never in my life saw , and never , I suppose , shall again see , anything so astonishingly beautiful . I really could have cried with pleasure . I rambled about for half an hour or more , paying little or no attention to details , but ...
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