Selected English EssaysWilliam Peacock |
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... better than me ? And if any man should do wrong , merely out of ill - nature , why , yet it is but like the thorn or briar which prick and scratch , because they can do no other . The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs ...
... better than me ? And if any man should do wrong , merely out of ill - nature , why , yet it is but like the thorn or briar which prick and scratch , because they can do no other . The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs ...
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... better man could be chosen ? He speaks all the languages . He earns a hun- dred florins a day . Prodigious ! Thirty - six thousand five hundred florins a year . Enormous ! He rides out to his castle with a score of gentlemen after him ...
... better man could be chosen ? He speaks all the languages . He earns a hun- dred florins a day . Prodigious ! Thirty - six thousand five hundred florins a year . Enormous ! He rides out to his castle with a score of gentlemen after him ...
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... better things . An older and better drama , containing many things of high merit , some things of surpassing merit , is kept before the public by means of this company R 2 MATTHEW ARNOLD 483.
... better things . An older and better drama , containing many things of high merit , some things of surpassing merit , is kept before the public by means of this company R 2 MATTHEW ARNOLD 483.
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Abraham Newland admirable beautiful better called character Chioggia church colour Dante delight dinner drama Elena Elizabethan Era English face fancy feel fellow French Gaiety Theatre genius gentlemen Gerado give Goldsmith gondola grace Grand Canal hand head hear heart Hernani honour humour imagination Irenæus kind lady laugh learned live look Malamocco Malebranche matter Messer mind Molière morning murder nature never Nicolas Poussin night observed Oliver Goldsmith once painted passed passion perhaps person picture play pleasure poem poet poetry poor round Sarah Bernhardt seems sense Shakespeare Sicarii Sir Roger sleep sort soul speak spirit style sweet talk taste tell theatre things thought Tintoretto tion Toad-in-the-hole told town true truth turn Venice verse Victor Hugo walk whist whole wonder words write young
References to this book
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener No preview available - 1989 |
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener Limited preview - 1989 |