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... sides ; and I like well , that four acres of ground be assigned to the green , six to the heath , four and four to either side , and twelve to the main garden . The green hath two pleasures : the one , because nothing is more pleasant ...
... sides ; and I like well , that four acres of ground be assigned to the green , six to the heath , four and four to either side , and twelve to the main garden . The green hath two pleasures : the one , because nothing is more pleasant ...
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... side grounds I would have a mount of some pretty height , leaving the wall of the enclosure breast - high , to look abroad into the fields . For the main garden I do not deny but there should be some fair alleys ranged on both sides ...
... side grounds I would have a mount of some pretty height , leaving the wall of the enclosure breast - high , to look abroad into the fields . For the main garden I do not deny but there should be some fair alleys ranged on both sides ...
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... side by side through the town , I was let into the characters of all the principal in- habitants whom we met in our way . One was a dog , another a whelp , another a cur , and another the son of a bitch , under which several ...
... side by side through the town , I was let into the characters of all the principal in- habitants whom we met in our way . One was a dog , another a whelp , another a cur , and another the son of a bitch , under which several ...
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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 |