Fifty Years of London Life: Memoirs of a Man of the WorldHarper & brothers, 1885 - 444 páginas |
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... Character ; Advan- tages of Local Color . - I Begin my Novel : Criticisms on it . - My Pretty Horse - breaker . - Dickens's Praise . - Offers for More . - Death of Frank Smedley . — Work on the Morning Star . — Tinsleys ' Magazine ...
... Character ; Advan- tages of Local Color . - I Begin my Novel : Criticisms on it . - My Pretty Horse - breaker . - Dickens's Praise . - Offers for More . - Death of Frank Smedley . — Work on the Morning Star . — Tinsleys ' Magazine ...
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... character then being played by Charles Math- ews the elder , in which the great mimic introduced his celebrated imitations . To my father's surprise , Mathews appeared among the guests ; but nothing daunted , the young man sustained his ...
... character then being played by Charles Math- ews the elder , in which the great mimic introduced his celebrated imitations . To my father's surprise , Mathews appeared among the guests ; but nothing daunted , the young man sustained his ...
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... characters with genuine pathos , wholly unaccompanied by exaggeration . In her private life she was one of the best of women , truly and unaffectedly pious , cheerful , and charitable ; a loving , forgiving , and long - suffering wife ...
... characters with genuine pathos , wholly unaccompanied by exaggeration . In her private life she was one of the best of women , truly and unaffectedly pious , cheerful , and charitable ; a loving , forgiving , and long - suffering wife ...
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... characters , to destroy or weaken in the minds of those who see them the impressions I have endeavored to create , and consequently to lessen the after - interest in their progress . No such objection can exist for a moment where the ...
... characters , to destroy or weaken in the minds of those who see them the impressions I have endeavored to create , and consequently to lessen the after - interest in their progress . No such objection can exist for a moment where the ...
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... character would be an absurdity . I don't see the possibility of any other house doing it before your next opening ... characters in the end , inasmuch as , at present , I don't quite know myself ; so we are toler- ably safe on that head ...
... character would be an absurdity . I don't see the possibility of any other house doing it before your next opening ... characters in the end , inasmuch as , at present , I don't quite know myself ; so we are toler- ably safe on that head ...
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Fifty Years of London Life: Memoirs of a Man of the World ... Edmund Hodgson Yates Vista completa - 1881 |
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