Waverley Or 'Tis Sixty Years SinceBaudry's European Libr., 1837 - 632 páginas |
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... mind more ambitious than mine ; and , in entering into this new contest for reputation , I might be said rather to endanger what I had , than to have any considerable chance of acquiring more . I was af- fected , too , by none of those ...
... mind more ambitious than mine ; and , in entering into this new contest for reputation , I might be said rather to endanger what I had , than to have any considerable chance of acquiring more . I was af- fected , too , by none of those ...
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... mind , I have seldom felt more satisfaction than when , returning from a pleasure voyage , I found Waverley in the zenith of popularity , and public curiosity in full cry after the name of the author . The knowledge that I had the ...
... mind , I have seldom felt more satisfaction than when , returning from a pleasure voyage , I found Waverley in the zenith of popularity , and public curiosity in full cry after the name of the author . The knowledge that I had the ...
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... mind ; for the cup of flattery , if it does not , like that of Circe , reduce men to the level of beasts , is sure , if eagerly drained , to bring the best and the ablest down to that of fools . This risk was in some degree prevented by ...
... mind ; for the cup of flattery , if it does not , like that of Circe , reduce men to the level of beasts , is sure , if eagerly drained , to bring the best and the ablest down to that of fools . This risk was in some degree prevented by ...
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... mind deserving to be employed on a subject of much greater importance ; and I have no doubt made converts to his opinion of al- most all who thought the point worthy of consideration * . Of those letters , and other attempts of the same ...
... mind deserving to be employed on a subject of much greater importance ; and I have no doubt made converts to his opinion of al- most all who thought the point worthy of consideration * . Of those letters , and other attempts of the same ...
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... mind to exhibit himself in public , after his recent disaster ; but Oswald the steward , a great formalist in whatever concerned the public exhibition of his master's household state , had positively enjoined his attendance . " What ...
... mind to exhibit himself in public , after his recent disaster ; but Oswald the steward , a great formalist in whatever concerned the public exhibition of his master's household state , had positively enjoined his attendance . " What ...
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