Selected English EssaysWilliam Peacock |
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Page 90
... hand ( allowing for the difference of the language ) the best receipt now in England both for a hasty - pudding and a white - pot . ' If you please to fall back a little , because it is necessary to look at the three next pictures at ...
... hand ( allowing for the difference of the language ) the best receipt now in England both for a hasty - pudding and a white - pot . ' If you please to fall back a little , because it is necessary to look at the three next pictures at ...
Page 245
... hand and eye have done their part . There is only a ' want of taste and genius . It is after we enter upon that enchanted ground that the human mind begins to droop and flag as in a strange road , or in a thick mist , benighted and ...
... hand and eye have done their part . There is only a ' want of taste and genius . It is after we enter upon that enchanted ground that the human mind begins to droop and flag as in a strange road , or in a thick mist , benighted and ...
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... hand , his right hand on his chair , his right leg on his left knee . He holds the flag of blue silk , in which the Virgin is embroidered ( such a silk ! such a flag ! such a piece of painting ! ) emblematic of the town of Amsterdam ...
... hand , his right hand on his chair , his right leg on his left knee . He holds the flag of blue silk , in which the Virgin is embroidered ( such a silk ! such a flag ! such a piece of painting ! ) emblematic of the town of Amsterdam ...
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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 |