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Page 203
... kind of a thing is , the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind . One daisy differs not much from another in glory ; but a violet should look and smell the daintiest . - I was always rather squeamish in my women and ...
... kind of a thing is , the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind . One daisy differs not much from another in glory ; but a violet should look and smell the daintiest . - I was always rather squeamish in my women and ...
Page 204
... kind of wonder , as if you were a queer kind of fellow that said good things , but an oddity , is one of the ways ; -they have a particular kind of stare for the purpose ; till at last the husband , who used to defer to your judgment ...
... kind of wonder , as if you were a queer kind of fellow that said good things , but an oddity , is one of the ways ; -they have a particular kind of stare for the purpose ; till at last the husband , who used to defer to your judgment ...
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... kind , however strongly they may gush forth , to run into quiet waters at last . We cannot easily , for the whole course of our lives , think with pain of any good and kind person whom we have lost . It is the divine nature of their ...
... kind , however strongly they may gush forth , to run into quiet waters at last . We cannot easily , for the whole course of our lives , think with pain of any good and kind person whom we have lost . It is the divine nature of their ...
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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 |