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... short , like the last touches of an artist , which contribute to heighten and finish the picture , though an inexperienced eye can hardly detect in what they consist . The General Preface to the new Edition , and the Intro- ductory ...
... short , like the last touches of an artist , which contribute to heighten and finish the picture , though an inexperienced eye can hardly detect in what they consist . The General Preface to the new Edition , and the Intro- ductory ...
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... short I may have fallen of it in practice . But it was not only the triumphs of Miss Edgeworth which waked in me emulation , and disturbed my indolence . I chanced actually to engage in a work which formed a sort of assay piece , and ...
... short I may have fallen of it in practice . But it was not only the triumphs of Miss Edgeworth which waked in me emulation , and disturbed my indolence . I chanced actually to engage in a work which formed a sort of assay piece , and ...
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... short , the Author believes his brother would have made himself distinguished in that striking field in which , since that period , Mr. Cooper has achieved so many triumphs . But Mr. T. Scott was already affected by bad health , which ...
... short , the Author believes his brother would have made himself distinguished in that striking field in which , since that period , Mr. Cooper has achieved so many triumphs . But Mr. T. Scott was already affected by bad health , which ...
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... short as it is , may be held as pledging the author to some special mode of laying his scene , drawing his characters , and managing his adventures . Had I , for example , announced in my frontis- piece , ' Waverley , a Tale of other ...
... short as it is , may be held as pledging the author to some special mode of laying his scene , drawing his characters , and managing his adventures . Had I , for example , announced in my frontis- piece , ' Waverley , a Tale of other ...
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... short these will fall of their aim if I shall be found unable to mix them with amusement - a task not quite so easy in this critical generation as it was ' Sixty Years since . ' * Alas ! that attire , respectable and gentlemanlike in ...
... short these will fall of their aim if I shall be found unable to mix them with amusement - a task not quite so easy in this critical generation as it was ' Sixty Years since . ' * Alas ! that attire , respectable and gentlemanlike in ...
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