A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient Sources |
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74 Johnson : Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson . From Original MS .
by llester Lynch Piozzi , London , 1788 . II . 139 . ( George Birkbeck Hill , Editor . )
102 Advice , as it always gives a temporary appearance of ADVERTISEMENTS ...
74 Johnson : Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson . From Original MS .
by llester Lynch Piozzi , London , 1788 . II . 139 . ( George Birkbeck Hill , Editor . )
102 Advice , as it always gives a temporary appearance of ADVERTISEMENTS ...
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... signal that he should give them up . 129 Leigh Hunt : Table Talk . Sporting . I
am a great friend to public amusements , for they kecp people from vice . 130
Johnson : Boswell ' s Life of Johnson . II . 169 . ( George Birkbeck Hill , Editor ,
1887 . ) ...
... signal that he should give them up . 129 Leigh Hunt : Table Talk . Sporting . I
am a great friend to public amusements , for they kecp people from vice . 130
Johnson : Boswell ' s Life of Johnson . II . 169 . ( George Birkbeck Hill , Editor ,
1887 . ) ...
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( George Birkbeck Hill , Editor , 1887 . ) ANTIQUITY – see Antiquarian . Nothing is
old but the mind . 156 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims . Progress of Culture .
They who make research into antiquity , may be said to pass often through many
...
( George Birkbeck Hill , Editor , 1887 . ) ANTIQUITY – see Antiquarian . Nothing is
old but the mind . 156 Emerson : Letters and Social Aims . Progress of Culture .
They who make research into antiquity , may be said to pass often through many
...
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Great edifices , like great mountains , are the work of ages . 172 Victor Hugo :
Notre Dame . Bk . iii . Ch . 1 . Architecture is a creation of the human intellect ,
adding to the stores of beauty in the world . 173 Thomas Starr King : The White
Hills .
Great edifices , like great mountains , are the work of ages . 172 Victor Hugo :
Notre Dame . Bk . iii . Ch . 1 . Architecture is a creation of the human intellect ,
adding to the stores of beauty in the world . 173 Thomas Starr King : The White
Hills .
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( Isabel Hill , Translator . ) The rendering , architecture is frozen music , has come
to us from the philosophy of Kunst ; - since it is music in space , as it were frozen
music . . . . If architecture in general is frozen music . ( Schilling , Translator , pp .
( Isabel Hill , Translator . ) The rendering , architecture is frozen music , has come
to us from the philosophy of Kunst ; - since it is music in space , as it were frozen
music . . . . If architecture in general is frozen music . ( Schilling , Translator , pp .
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| Title | A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient Sources The Astor prose series |
| Editor | Anna Lydia Ward |
| Publisher | T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1889 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 16 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 701 pages |
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