A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient SourcesAnna Lydia Ward |
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... Moral Sub- jects . Of the Entertainment of Books . It is not easy for a man to speak of his own books . 301 Dickens : Speeches , Literary and Social . III . Feb. 1 , 1842 . An author is a solitary being , who , for the same reason he ...
... Moral Sub- jects . Of the Entertainment of Books . It is not easy for a man to speak of his own books . 301 Dickens : Speeches , Literary and Social . III . Feb. 1 , 1842 . An author is a solitary being , who , for the same reason he ...
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... moral beauty which is the basis , the principle , and the unity of the beautiful . 424 Schiller Essays , Esthetical and Philosophical . Introduction . Beauty of the fantastic or grotesque is not the highest beauty . Art , like nature ...
... moral beauty which is the basis , the principle , and the unity of the beautiful . 424 Schiller Essays , Esthetical and Philosophical . Introduction . Beauty of the fantastic or grotesque is not the highest beauty . Art , like nature ...
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... Moral Subjects . Of the Entertainment of Books . Books are fatal : they are the curse of the human race . Nine - tenths of existing books are nonsense , and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense . The greatest mis ...
... Moral Subjects . Of the Entertainment of Books . Books are fatal : they are the curse of the human race . Nine - tenths of existing books are nonsense , and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense . The greatest mis ...
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... moral imagination , the relics of our best affections , the tokens and records of our happiest hours . They are " for thoughts and for remembrance . ' 525 Hazlitt : The Plain Speaker . On Reading Old Books . Books are the negative ...
... moral imagination , the relics of our best affections , the tokens and records of our happiest hours . They are " for thoughts and for remembrance . ' 525 Hazlitt : The Plain Speaker . On Reading Old Books . Books are the negative ...
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... Moral Maxims . Third Supplement . No. 92 . We often boast that we are never bored , but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others . La Rochefoucauld : Reflections ; or , Sentences and Moral Maxims . No ...
... Moral Maxims . Third Supplement . No. 92 . We often boast that we are never bored , but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others . La Rochefoucauld : Reflections ; or , Sentences and Moral Maxims . No ...
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