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... less than we anticipated , but in all the rest - the diffuseness - the pom- posity - the prolixity -- the false colouring - the factitious de- tails - and , above all , the personal affectation and vanity of the author , this book ...
... less than we anticipated , but in all the rest - the diffuseness - the pom- posity - the prolixity -- the false colouring - the factitious de- tails - and , above all , the personal affectation and vanity of the author , this book ...
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... less faith in the details of those elaborate dialogues , which occupy , we believe , more than half her volumes - their very minuteness and elaboration sufficiently prove that they cannot be authentic ; and they are , moreover , trivial ...
... less faith in the details of those elaborate dialogues , which occupy , we believe , more than half her volumes - their very minuteness and elaboration sufficiently prove that they cannot be authentic ; and they are , moreover , trivial ...
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... less than nine pages are expended in an account of her reception at one of Sir Joshua's evening parties , in which a lively lady of the day , Mrs. Cholmondeley , is introduced as bearing a prominent part , but - like everybody else ...
... less than nine pages are expended in an account of her reception at one of Sir Joshua's evening parties , in which a lively lady of the day , Mrs. Cholmondeley , is introduced as bearing a prominent part , but - like everybody else ...
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... less that there is a deliberate spy , who writes it all down , first for the amusement of her own friends , and eventually for publication to all the world . We can call this by no softer name than treachery ; and the editor who has ...
... less that there is a deliberate spy , who writes it all down , first for the amusement of her own friends , and eventually for publication to all the world . We can call this by no softer name than treachery ; and the editor who has ...
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... less obedient than my will , and it became so husky , and so unmanageable , that nothing more unpleasant could be heard . The paper was a curious one enough - all concerning a court favourite . I could hardly rejoice when my task was ...
... less obedient than my will , and it became so husky , and so unmanageable , that nothing more unpleasant could be heard . The paper was a curious one enough - all concerning a court favourite . I could hardly rejoice when my task was ...
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Página 176 - That curse shall be Forgiveness. — Have I not — Hear me, my mother Earth ! behold it, Heaven !— Have I not had to wrestle with my lot? Have I not...
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Página 302 - ... alleys, paved with mud knee-deep, underground chambers, where they dance and game; the walls bedecked with rough designs of ships, and forts, and flags, and American Eagles out of number; ruined houses, open to the street, whence, through wide gaps in the walls, other ruins loom upon the eye, as though the world of vice and misery had nothing else to show; hideous tenements which take their name from robbery and murder: all that is loathsome, drooping, and decayed is here. Our leader has his...
Página 549 - She then gave Laura a string of beads which she used to wear at home, which were recognized by the child at once, who, with much joy, put them around her neck, and sought me eagerly, to say she understood the string was from her home. The mother now tried to caress her, but poor Laura repelled her, preferring to be with her acquaintances.
Página 548 - She sometimes purposely spells a word wrong with the left hand, looks roguish for a moment and laughs, and then with the right hand strikes the left, as if to correct it. During the year she has attained great dexterity in the...
Página 395 - But what words shall describe the Mississippi, great father of rivers, who (praise be to Heaven) has no young children like him ! An enormous ditch, sometimes two or three miles wide, running liquid mud, six miles an hour...
Página 547 - In this lonely self-communion she seems to reason, reflect, and argue : if she spell a word wrong with the fingers of her right hand, she instantly strikes it with her left, as her teacher does, in sign of disapprobation ; if right, then she pats herself upon the head, and looks pleased. She sometimes purposely spells a word wrong with the left hand, looks roguish for a moment and laughs, and then with the right hand strikes the left, as if to correct it.
Página 15 - And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
Página 548 - ... in hers, and following every movement of their fingers, as letter after letter conveys their meaning to her mind. It is in this way that she converses with her blind playmates, and nothing can more forcibly show the power of mind in forcing matter to its purpose than a meeting between them. For if great talent and skill are necessary for two pantomimes to paint their thoughts and feelings by the movements of the body, and the expression of the countenance, how much greater the difficulty when...
Página 23 - When she observes that I have run to her but half dressed, she constantly gives me leave to return and finish as soon as she is seated. If she is grave, and reads steadily on, she dismisses me, whether I am dressed or not ; but at all times she never forgets to send me away while she is powdering, with a consideration not to spoil my clothes, that one would not expect belonged to her high station. Neither does she ever detain me without making a point of reading here and there some little paragraph...