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The finest achievements in the art of acting , if they live at all as subjects of
popular knowledge , must live as pictures in the memory . 24 William Winter : The
Stage Life of Mary Anderson . Preface . 23 28 ACTION — see Purpose , Speech ...
The finest achievements in the art of acting , if they live at all as subjects of
popular knowledge , must live as pictures in the memory . 24 William Winter : The
Stage Life of Mary Anderson . Preface . 23 28 ACTION — see Purpose , Speech ...
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82 Hazlitt : Characteristics . No . 157 . Contempt is the proper punishment of
affectation . Johnson : Rambler . No . 20 . AFFECTION Our affections are our life .
We live by these . They supply our warmth . 84 Channing : Vote - Book .
Friendship .
82 Hazlitt : Characteristics . No . 157 . Contempt is the proper punishment of
affectation . Johnson : Rambler . No . 20 . AFFECTION Our affections are our life .
We live by these . They supply our warmth . 84 Channing : Vote - Book .
Friendship .
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We may live without architecture , and worship without her , but we cannot
remember without her . 177 Ruskin : The Seven Lamps of Architecture . Ch . 6 .
When we build , let us think that we build ( public edifices ) for ever . Let it not be
for the ...
We may live without architecture , and worship without her , but we cannot
remember without her . 177 Ruskin : The Seven Lamps of Architecture . Ch . 6 .
When we build , let us think that we build ( public edifices ) for ever . Let it not be
for the ...
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... standard value , none at their birth . Hence the unknown maker of a book — I
speak especially of the time when I first sinned in ink - is a sort of gypsy in the
social scale , a picturesque vagabond , who somehow or the other contrives to
live ...
... standard value , none at their birth . Hence the unknown maker of a book — I
speak especially of the time when I first sinned in ink - is a sort of gypsy in the
social scale , a picturesque vagabond , who somehow or the other contrives to
live ...
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... lofty a spirit and sweet content , that I pity all our great ones and rich men that
know not this happiness . 461 Burton : Anatomy of Melancholy . Pt . ii . Sect . ii .
Mem . 4 . Nothing , while I live and think , can deprive BIBLE – BIBLIOPHILISM .
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... lofty a spirit and sweet content , that I pity all our great ones and rich men that
know not this happiness . 461 Burton : Anatomy of Melancholy . Pt . ii . Sect . ii .
Mem . 4 . Nothing , while I live and think , can deprive BIBLE – BIBLIOPHILISM .
45.
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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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