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... probably no place in the whole world where the feeling of mental independence is so complete as it is in London . There is no place where differences of opinion are more marked in character or more frank and open in expression ; but ...
... probably no place in the whole world where the feeling of mental independence is so complete as it is in London . There is no place where differences of opinion are more marked in character or more frank and open in expression ; but ...
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... probably find himself à l'étroit with humorists who have none , whilst the cultured man who has no humour , or whose humorous tendencies have been overpowered by serious thought , is so terribly isolated in uneducated society that he ...
... probably find himself à l'étroit with humorists who have none , whilst the cultured man who has no humour , or whose humorous tendencies have been overpowered by serious thought , is so terribly isolated in uneducated society that he ...
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... probably much blended , the distinction can seldom be accurately made in the cases of real persons , though it is marked trench- antly enough in works of pure imagination . The passion exists in an infinite variety , and it is so ...
... probably much blended , the distinction can seldom be accurately made in the cases of real persons , though it is marked trench- antly enough in works of pure imagination . The passion exists in an infinite variety , and it is so ...
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... probably often does happen , that a passion establishes itself where it has no possible chance of satisfaction , and where , instead of being cut short by death , it persists through a considerable part of life and embitters it . These ...
... probably often does happen , that a passion establishes itself where it has no possible chance of satisfaction , and where , instead of being cut short by death , it persists through a considerable part of life and embitters it . These ...
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... probably not unembittered by the false position in which it placed them . The sad story of Shelley's first marriage - that with Harriett Westbrook -is one of the best instances of a deplorable but most natural mistake . She is said to ...
... probably not unembittered by the false position in which it placed them . The sad story of Shelley's first marriage - that with Harriett Westbrook -is one of the best instances of a deplorable but most natural mistake . She is said to ...
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