A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient SourcesAnna Lydia Ward |
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... pleasure . 174 Ruskin : The Seven Lamps of Architecture . Architecture is the work of nations . Ch . 1 . Sculpture . 175 Ruskin The True and the Beautiful . The architecture of a nation is great only when it is as uni- versal and as ...
... pleasure . 174 Ruskin : The Seven Lamps of Architecture . Architecture is the work of nations . Ch . 1 . Sculpture . 175 Ruskin The True and the Beautiful . The architecture of a nation is great only when it is as uni- versal and as ...
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... pleasure , than to write things that deserve to be read . 299 Lord Chesterfield : Letters to His Son . 1739 . Authors , like women , commonly dress when they make a visit . Respect to themselves makes them polish their thoughts , and ...
... pleasure , than to write things that deserve to be read . 299 Lord Chesterfield : Letters to His Son . 1739 . Authors , like women , commonly dress when they make a visit . Respect to themselves makes them polish their thoughts , and ...
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... pleasure , and the second devoted to ambition . He that sinks under the fatigue of get- ting wealth lulls his age with the milder business of saving it . 387 Johnson : The Rambler . No. 151 . There are some sordid souls , grovelling in ...
... pleasure , and the second devoted to ambition . He that sinks under the fatigue of get- ting wealth lulls his age with the milder business of saving it . 387 Johnson : The Rambler . No. 151 . There are some sordid souls , grovelling in ...
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... pleasure , the wardrobe of a 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 ...
... pleasure , the wardrobe of a 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 ...
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... pleasures when young , and which , having so taught us , enable us to recall thein with satisfaction when old . 535 ... pleasure obliterate ideas . He that reads books of science , though without any desire of improvement , will grow ...
... pleasures when young , and which , having so taught us , enable us to recall thein with satisfaction when old . 535 ... pleasure obliterate ideas . He that reads books of science , though without any desire of improvement , will grow ...
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