Selected English EssaysWilliam Peacock |
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Page 131
... matter of such con- sequence without my approbation . Finding he would have an answer , I told him , if he could get ... matters so far , that she is ripe for asking advice ; but as I would not lose her good - will , nor for- feit the ...
... matter of such con- sequence without my approbation . Finding he would have an answer , I told him , if he could get ... matters so far , that she is ripe for asking advice ; but as I would not lose her good - will , nor for- feit the ...
Page 372
... matter : cuts into the matter as with a pen of fire . Plutus , the blustering giant , collapses at Virgil's rebuke ; it is ' as the sails sink , the mast being suddenly broken . ' Or that poor Brunetto Latini , with the cotto aspetto ...
... matter : cuts into the matter as with a pen of fire . Plutus , the blustering giant , collapses at Virgil's rebuke ; it is ' as the sails sink , the mast being suddenly broken . ' Or that poor Brunetto Latini , with the cotto aspetto ...
Page 383
... matters too . Of this Shakespeare of ours , perhaps the opinion one sometimes hears a little idolatrously expressed is ... matter ; it is a calmly seeing eye ; a great intellect , in short . How a man , of some wide thing that he has ...
... matters too . Of this Shakespeare of ours , perhaps the opinion one sometimes hears a little idolatrously expressed is ... matter ; it is a calmly seeing eye ; a great intellect , in short . How a man , of some wide thing that he has ...
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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 |