A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient SourcesAnna Lydia Ward |
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... love and elevates our affections . Absence is the invisible and incorporeal mother of ideal beauty . Landor : Imaginary Conversations . Kosciusko 9 and Poniatowski . i Among the defects of the bill , which were numerous QUOTATIONS.
... love and elevates our affections . Absence is the invisible and incorporeal mother of ideal beauty . Landor : Imaginary Conversations . Kosciusko 9 and Poniatowski . i Among the defects of the bill , which were numerous QUOTATIONS.
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... Conversation In the adversity of our best friends we always find some- thing which is not wholly displeasing to us . 61 La Rochefoucauld : Reflections . No. 15 . Great men often rejoice at crosses of fortune , just as brave soldiers do ...
... Conversation In the adversity of our best friends we always find some- thing which is not wholly displeasing to us . 61 La Rochefoucauld : Reflections . No. 15 . Great men often rejoice at crosses of fortune , just as brave soldiers do ...
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... Conversations . Vipsania . Tiberius and Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked . 111 Landor : Imaginary Conversations . Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney . Ambition is indeed the most inconsiderate of passions , none of which are ...
... Conversations . Vipsania . Tiberius and Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked . 111 Landor : Imaginary Conversations . Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney . Ambition is indeed the most inconsiderate of passions , none of which are ...
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... : Washington Irving . Ch . 6. American Men of Letters . A painter is a companion for kings and emperors . 279 Benjamin West : Exclamation in a Conversation . ASPIRATION . Enflamed with the study of learning and the ARTISTS . 27.
... : Washington Irving . Ch . 6. American Men of Letters . A painter is a companion for kings and emperors . 279 Benjamin West : Exclamation in a Conversation . ASPIRATION . Enflamed with the study of learning and the ARTISTS . 27.
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... conversation . 300 Jeremy Collier : Essays upon Several 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 ...
... conversation . 300 Jeremy Collier : Essays upon Several 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 ...
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