The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volumen2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1876 |
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... pleased that he goes on in such a way ; for he is much less for- midable in such a state than he would be , if he kept his 1 Mr. Empson had married the daughter of Lord Jeffrey . temper . I sent to Napier on Thursday a long 1838-39 . 15 ...
... pleased that he goes on in such a way ; for he is much less for- midable in such a state than he would be , if he kept his 1 Mr. Empson had married the daughter of Lord Jeffrey . temper . I sent to Napier on Thursday a long 1838-39 . 15 ...
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... pleased his eye more than his own beloved Holly Lodge , or Mr. Thornton's garden at Battersea Rise . When we were recalling the delights of an excursion among the Surrey hills , or in the byeways at the English lakes , he would be ...
... pleased his eye more than his own beloved Holly Lodge , or Mr. Thornton's garden at Battersea Rise . When we were recalling the delights of an excursion among the Surrey hills , or in the byeways at the English lakes , he would be ...
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... pleased . To enjoy scenery you should ramble amidst it ; let the feelings to which it gives rise mingle with other thoughts ; look around upon it in intervals of reading ; and not go to it as one goes to see the lions fed at a fair ...
... pleased . To enjoy scenery you should ramble amidst it ; let the feelings to which it gives rise mingle with other thoughts ; look around upon it in intervals of reading ; and not go to it as one goes to see the lions fed at a fair ...
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... pleased me more than I can express . It was the awakening of a new sense , the discovery of an un- suspected pleasure . I had drawn all my notions of classical interiors from the cold , white , and naked walls of such buildings as St ...
... pleased me more than I can express . It was the awakening of a new sense , the discovery of an un- suspected pleasure . I had drawn all my notions of classical interiors from the cold , white , and naked walls of such buildings as St ...
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... pleased me to think how many great Romans , when Rome was what England is now , loved to pass their occasional holidays on this beautiful coast . I travelled across the low country through which Horace's Liris flows ; by the marshes of ...
... pleased me to think how many great Romans , when Rome was what England is now , loved to pass their occasional holidays on this beautiful coast . I travelled across the low country through which Horace's Liris flows ; by the marshes of ...
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