Table Talk: Or, Selections from the Ana. Containing Extracts from the Different Collections of Ana, French, English, Italian, and German. With Bibliographical Notices |
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... remarked as he rose to go , " I have never heard a sermon so early - or so late . ” CCXXIV . A BORROWED COUNTENANCE . A Gascon officer , demanding his salary from the minister of war , maintained that he was in danger of dying of hunger ...
... remarked as he rose to go , " I have never heard a sermon so early - or so late . ” CCXXIV . A BORROWED COUNTENANCE . A Gascon officer , demanding his salary from the minister of war , maintained that he was in danger of dying of hunger ...
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... remarked that " the world was like an old coquette who disguised her age . 99 CCCXI . MARMONTEL . Voltaire thought much more of the poetics of Marmontel than of his poetry . " This author , " he observed , " is like Moses , having ...
... remarked that " the world was like an old coquette who disguised her age . 99 CCCXI . MARMONTEL . Voltaire thought much more of the poetics of Marmontel than of his poetry . " This author , " he observed , " is like Moses , having ...
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... remarked by one of them : " Well ! in place of five hours , I could pass five months with this astonishing man ! " " It may be so , my friend , " said the other ; " I would not willingly pass five hours with him , for I like to be in ...
... remarked by one of them : " Well ! in place of five hours , I could pass five months with this astonishing man ! " " It may be so , my friend , " said the other ; " I would not willingly pass five hours with him , for I like to be in ...
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... , 1784 , Mr Walpole remarked that , at a certain time of their lives , men of genius seemed to be in flower . Gray was in flower three years , when he wrote his Odes , & c . This starting the idea of the American 196 TABLE - TALK .
... , 1784 , Mr Walpole remarked that , at a certain time of their lives , men of genius seemed to be in flower . Gray was in flower three years , when he wrote his Odes , & c . This starting the idea of the American 196 TABLE - TALK .
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... remarked , " that he neither wanted parts nor lite- rature ; but his vanity and Quixotism obscured his merits . " Boswell expressed his opinion of his friend Der rick , as but a poor writer . Johnson . “ To be sure , sir , he is ; but ...
... remarked , " that he neither wanted parts nor lite- rature ; but his vanity and Quixotism obscured his merits . " Boswell expressed his opinion of his friend Der rick , as but a poor writer . Johnson . “ To be sure , sir , he is ; but ...
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