The Best of All Good CompanyHoulston and Sons, 1872 - 472 Seiten |
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... less true and sympathetic than his was . It wanted such a man as Dickens was in his life to be such a writer as he was for the world . He drew beauties out of material that to the common eye was vulgar , un- promising stuff . Shallow ...
... less true and sympathetic than his was . It wanted such a man as Dickens was in his life to be such a writer as he was for the world . He drew beauties out of material that to the common eye was vulgar , un- promising stuff . Shallow ...
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... less smoothed or effaced by the varnish of polite society than in picturing those of a world where the expression of individual characters become less marked , is true . To each man his own field . An essay could be recalled , written ...
... less smoothed or effaced by the varnish of polite society than in picturing those of a world where the expression of individual characters become less marked , is true . To each man his own field . An essay could be recalled , written ...
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... less violent than that caused by Oliver Twist . The emancipation of childhood seemed to be as daring and indelicate a theme as the emancipation of the poor . Strangely enough , numberless claimants appeared to take upon themselves the ...
... less violent than that caused by Oliver Twist . The emancipation of childhood seemed to be as daring and indelicate a theme as the emancipation of the poor . Strangely enough , numberless claimants appeared to take upon themselves the ...
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... less fortunate ; but his frame and nervous system were much shaken . In 1868 he paid his second visit to America . The farewell banquet given to him at the Freemasons ' Tavern , under the presidency of his friend Lord Lytton , the ...
... less fortunate ; but his frame and nervous system were much shaken . In 1868 he paid his second visit to America . The farewell banquet given to him at the Freemasons ' Tavern , under the presidency of his friend Lord Lytton , the ...
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... less that is pernicious and destructive , and that will some day set fire to something or other , which , if given boldly to the winds , would have been harmless , but which , obstinately retained , is ruinous . I believe myself that ...
... less that is pernicious and destructive , and that will some day set fire to something or other , which , if given boldly to the winds , would have been harmless , but which , obstinately retained , is ruinous . I believe myself that ...
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