The Indicator, and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and the Fire-side, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1834 |
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... Idea ; Materials for Drinking ; the Knocker , No. 1 ; -the Hippopotamus entered at Stationers ' Hall ; the Piano - forte of Paulus Æmilius ; the Seven Sleepers at Cards ; the Arabian Nights on Horse- back - with an infinite number of ...
... Idea ; Materials for Drinking ; the Knocker , No. 1 ; -the Hippopotamus entered at Stationers ' Hall ; the Piano - forte of Paulus Æmilius ; the Seven Sleepers at Cards ; the Arabian Nights on Horse- back - with an infinite number of ...
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... not afford a larger . He was a Duode- narian , in that respect , like ourselves . We do not know how our ideas of a study might expand with our walls . Montaigne , who was Montaigne " of that APARTMENTS FOR STUDY . 7.
... not afford a larger . He was a Duode- narian , in that respect , like ourselves . We do not know how our ideas of a study might expand with our walls . Montaigne , who was Montaigne " of that APARTMENTS FOR STUDY . 7.
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... idea seems to have originated with Theocritus ( Idyl . 27. v . 50 , edit . Valckenaer ) , from whom it was copied by the Italian writers . It makes a lovely figure in one of the most famous passages of Ariosto , where he describes the ...
... idea seems to have originated with Theocritus ( Idyl . 27. v . 50 , edit . Valckenaer ) , from whom it was copied by the Italian writers . It makes a lovely figure in one of the most famous passages of Ariosto , where he describes the ...
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... idea of a mind in those times , to see it capable of piercing through the clouds of custom , of ignorance , and even of self - interest , and petitioning the petty tyrant to forego such a privilege . This mind was Godiva's . The other ...
... idea of a mind in those times , to see it capable of piercing through the clouds of custom , of ignorance , and even of self - interest , and petitioning the petty tyrant to forego such a privilege . This mind was Godiva's . The other ...
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... idea of Brandon with him like that of a second self ; and the princess , whose affection was not hindered from becoming personal by any thing sisterly , nor on the other hand allowed to waste itself in too equal a familiarity , may have ...
... idea of Brandon with him like that of a second self ; and the princess , whose affection was not hindered from becoming personal by any thing sisterly , nor on the other hand allowed to waste itself in too equal a familiarity , may have ...
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