Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Svazek 1T. Boys, 1826 - Počet stran: 360 |
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... beauty and of aggravating a fault ; and though such a treatment of an author naturally produces indignation in the mind of an understanding reader , it has , however , its effect among the generality of those whose hands it falls into ...
... beauty and of aggravating a fault ; and though such a treatment of an author naturally produces indignation in the mind of an understanding reader , it has , however , its effect among the generality of those whose hands it falls into ...
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... beauty or value . Art is only the under - workman , and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master . Some of which may 14 LACONICS . expected dowry: and since her followers ...
... beauty or value . Art is only the under - workman , and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master . Some of which may 14 LACONICS . expected dowry: and since her followers ...
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... beauty of the affections , which form the man- ners and conduct of a truly social life . — Shaftesbury . LXXVII . An experiment very frequent among modern authors , is to write upon nothing : when the subject is utterly ex- hausted , to ...
... beauty of the affections , which form the man- ners and conduct of a truly social life . — Shaftesbury . LXXVII . An experiment very frequent among modern authors , is to write upon nothing : when the subject is utterly ex- hausted , to ...
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... silent , with unconscious light , So modest ease in beauty shines most bright ; Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall , And she who means no mischief does it all . A. Hill CXII . # Reason is a very light rider , 24 LACONICS .
... silent , with unconscious light , So modest ease in beauty shines most bright ; Unaiming charms with edge resistless fall , And she who means no mischief does it all . A. Hill CXII . # Reason is a very light rider , 24 LACONICS .
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... beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth . For all beauty is truth . True features make the beauty of a face ; and true proportions the beauty of architecture ; as true measures that of har- mony and music . In poetry , which is ...
... beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth . For all beauty is truth . True features make the beauty of a face ; and true proportions the beauty of architecture ; as true measures that of har- mony and music . In poetry , which is ...
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