Selections from the Correspondence of R.E.H. Greyson, Esq. [pseud.]Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1861 - 432 páginas |
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... expression are such as may be expected in familiar letters . Certainly , it would be easy to find modes of treating serious subjects quite as light in most collections of familiar letters , in those of Cowper , for example . If some ...
... expression are such as may be expected in familiar letters . Certainly , it would be easy to find modes of treating serious subjects quite as light in most collections of familiar letters , in those of Cowper , for example . If some ...
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... expressing to a friend his amuse- ment at the strangely discordant opinions of the press : " Do you not see the reason of it ? was the reply : " the periodicals that are most angry that assume the most solemn airs — are those that ...
... expressing to a friend his amuse- ment at the strangely discordant opinions of the press : " Do you not see the reason of it ? was the reply : " the periodicals that are most angry that assume the most solemn airs — are those that ...
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... expression ) will as naturally be expected ; for this , too , is an unfailing charac- teristic of all collections like the present . I think I have observed that such compilations often retain details so minute as to be uninteresting to ...
... expression ) will as naturally be expected ; for this , too , is an unfailing charac- teristic of all collections like the present . I think I have observed that such compilations often retain details so minute as to be uninteresting to ...
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... expressions are often too colloquial , or the pleasantry too trivial : they must be content with similar criticism , and remember they are reading familiar letters . Fireside prattle , — table - talk , - the sheet of gossip with a ...
... expressions are often too colloquial , or the pleasantry too trivial : they must be content with similar criticism , and remember they are reading familiar letters . Fireside prattle , — table - talk , - the sheet of gossip with a ...
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... expression , and has that most lovely feature of age , sympathy with the young . He bears the " burden " of years cheerfully , and is studiously anxious not to impose a grain's weight on others , if it can be avoided . The spectacle of ...
... expression , and has that most lovely feature of age , sympathy with the young . He bears the " burden " of years cheerfully , and is studiously anxious not to impose a grain's weight on others , if it can be avoided . The spectacle of ...
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Selections from the Correspondence of R.E.H. Greyson, Esq. [pseud.] Henry Rogers Vista completa - 1861 |
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