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Page 12
... once heard of a very acute critic . A party of friends one evening were discuss- ing the acting of the elder Kean and his son ; all agreed in praising the felicity with which the son imitated the father : one went so far as to declare ...
... once heard of a very acute critic . A party of friends one evening were discuss- ing the acting of the elder Kean and his son ; all agreed in praising the felicity with which the son imitated the father : one went so far as to declare ...
Page 14
... once facetiously observed , his piano ; inclination is not a good test of genius . It is too fre- quently the offspring of indolence and facility of execution . It is the common trick of humanity to avoid the toilsome and rugged road ...
... once facetiously observed , his piano ; inclination is not a good test of genius . It is too fre- quently the offspring of indolence and facility of execution . It is the common trick of humanity to avoid the toilsome and rugged road ...
Page 16
... once recognise their affinity to each other , and the necessity for the existence of each , with as much logical readiness as the eye passes over the human frame , and at once detects a deficiency or superfluity of the limbs composing ...
... once recognise their affinity to each other , and the necessity for the existence of each , with as much logical readiness as the eye passes over the human frame , and at once detects a deficiency or superfluity of the limbs composing ...
Page 29
... once more turned towards the vessel . The current swept him diagonally by the rocks , and he was forced into an eddy , where he had nothing to contend against but the waves , whose violence was much broken by the wreck . In this state ...
... once more turned towards the vessel . The current swept him diagonally by the rocks , and he was forced into an eddy , where he had nothing to contend against but the waves , whose violence was much broken by the wreck . In this state ...
Page 36
... once before that day been so finely developed in the race of the gondoliers , were now expanded , seem- ingly in twofold volumes . Energy and skill were in every stroke , and the dark spot came down the streak of light , like the ...
... once before that day been so finely developed in the race of the gondoliers , were now expanded , seem- ingly in twofold volumes . Energy and skill were in every stroke , and the dark spot came down the streak of light , like the ...
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