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... Rich- mond to your Richard ! I'll We need not finish the sentence . Doubtless this intense egotism , as it is found with all artists , is necessary to the artistic nature . Without it they would sink in the midst of their ...
... Rich- mond to your Richard ! I'll We need not finish the sentence . Doubtless this intense egotism , as it is found with all artists , is necessary to the artistic nature . Without it they would sink in the midst of their ...
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... rich man now- a - days ; they sneer at him behind his back and dine with him next day ; whereas , in the days of Elizabeth , when the drama was a power , they showed him up on the stage , hat , feather , trunk hose , and sword , and ...
... rich man now- a - days ; they sneer at him behind his back and dine with him next day ; whereas , in the days of Elizabeth , when the drama was a power , they showed him up on the stage , hat , feather , trunk hose , and sword , and ...
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... rich enough to bring the paper out himself . It is the rule of the world that almost all the discoveries and in- ventors have not sufficient capital to float their discoveries ; and so it was with our poor projector , who urged his ...
... rich enough to bring the paper out himself . It is the rule of the world that almost all the discoveries and in- ventors have not sufficient capital to float their discoveries ; and so it was with our poor projector , who urged his ...
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... Rich folk , who dine at seven or eight , do not desire to sit out Shakspere , with those enormous problems of his ... rich nobleman does what few rich noblemen have the brains or the pluck or 62 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
... Rich folk , who dine at seven or eight , do not desire to sit out Shakspere , with those enormous problems of his ... rich nobleman does what few rich noblemen have the brains or the pluck or 62 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
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James Hain Friswell. few rich noblemen have the brains or the pluck or the good fortune to do : he falls in love with a pretty pupil- teacher , who has abundance of everything in the world , except money . She has beauty , health , sense ...
James Hain Friswell. few rich noblemen have the brains or the pluck or the good fortune to do : he falls in love with a pretty pupil- teacher , who has abundance of everything in the world , except money . She has beauty , health , sense ...
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Page 108 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 62 - In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 178 - O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Page 181 - But that vast portion, lastly, of the working class which, raw and half-developed, has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven^ born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes, — to this vast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace.
Page 8 - Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.