The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events. St. Paul's to St. James's, Volume 1Smith, Elder, and Company, 1848 |
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Page 64
... writer of his life has remarked , she was perhaps " little capable of drawing any nice distinction between the feelings of the hired surveyor of Blenheim , and those of our architect , in the contemplation of the rising of the fabric ...
... writer of his life has remarked , she was perhaps " little capable of drawing any nice distinction between the feelings of the hired surveyor of Blenheim , and those of our architect , in the contemplation of the rising of the fabric ...
Page 89
... writer on political arithmetic ; and Vanbrugh , the comic writer , who wore a tabard for a short time , as Clarencieux . Gibbon had an ancestor , a herald , who took great interest in the profes- * Vix ea nostra voco — ( as above ...
... writer on political arithmetic ; and Vanbrugh , the comic writer , who wore a tabard for a short time , as Clarencieux . Gibbon had an ancestor , a herald , who took great interest in the profes- * Vix ea nostra voco — ( as above ...
Page 123
... writer of manners , and sometimes as hardly any writer at all . And yet he told Boswell that he had read his Amelia through " without stopping : " and according to Mrs. Piozzi she was his favourite heroine . In the comparison of ...
... writer of manners , and sometimes as hardly any writer at all . And yet he told Boswell that he had read his Amelia through " without stopping : " and according to Mrs. Piozzi she was his favourite heroine . In the comparison of ...
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