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Pagina 2
... person , of deplorably vulgar habits and manners ; while Foker , and with equal reason , voted Erith a prig and a dullard , the nightcap of the House of Commons , the Speaker's opprobrium , the dreariest of philanthropic spout- Nor ...
... person , of deplorably vulgar habits and manners ; while Foker , and with equal reason , voted Erith a prig and a dullard , the nightcap of the House of Commons , the Speaker's opprobrium , the dreariest of philanthropic spout- Nor ...
Pagina 8
... person with peculiar richness this day ; and what must have been the valet's astonishment , when , after some blushing and hesitation on Harry's part , the young gentleman asked , " I say , Anatole , when I engaged you , didn't you ...
... person with peculiar richness this day ; and what must have been the valet's astonishment , when , after some blushing and hesitation on Harry's part , the young gentleman asked , " I say , Anatole , when I engaged you , didn't you ...
Pagina 9
... persons of whom they fancied themselves fond will be found to have become insipid and disagreeable . Then your dearest Eliza or Maria of the other day , to whom you wrote letters and sent locks of hair yards long , will on a sudden be ...
... persons of whom they fancied themselves fond will be found to have become insipid and disagreeable . Then your dearest Eliza or Maria of the other day , to whom you wrote letters and sent locks of hair yards long , will on a sudden be ...
Pagina 29
... persons forsake their own callings , whatever they may be , for the sake of supplying the world with novels , whereof there is already a sufficiency . Let no young people be misled and rush fatally into romance - writing : for one book ...
... persons forsake their own callings , whatever they may be , for the sake of supplying the world with novels , whereof there is already a sufficiency . Let no young people be misled and rush fatally into romance - writing : for one book ...
Pagina 30
... person of his friend , and in his own conscience , which said to him , " Be grateful for this piece of good fortune ; don't plunge into any extravagances . Pay back Laura ! " And he wrote a letter to her , in which he told her his ...
... person of his friend , and in his own conscience , which said to him , " Be grateful for this piece of good fortune ; don't plunge into any extravagances . Pay back Laura ! " And he wrote a letter to her , in which he told her his ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 380 - I do not like thee, Dr. Fell ; the reason why I cannot tell,
Pagina 248 - ... solutions to those come to by our friend. We are not pledging ourselves for the correctness of his opinions, which readers will please to consider are delivered dramatically, the writer being no more answerable for them, than for the sentiments uttered by any other character of the story: our endeavor is merely to follow out, in its progress, the development of the mind of a worldly and selfish, but not ungenerous or unkind, or truthavoiding man.
Pagina 22 - If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
Pagina 249 - If seeing and acknowledging the lies of the world, Arthur, as see them you can with only too fatal a clearness, you submit to them without any protest...