The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 3G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... talk with him . King . Among your services You have not done a better . The crime is strange , ' tis fit the sentence on it Be memorably just . Men . Most true , my liege , Who I am sure will not be warp'd away By the side current of a ...
... talk with him . King . Among your services You have not done a better . The crime is strange , ' tis fit the sentence on it Be memorably just . Men . Most true , my liege , Who I am sure will not be warp'd away By the side current of a ...
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... talk little , and that little mostly from the News- papers . Now when I look back , it was a strange isolation I then lived in . The men and women around me , even speaking with me , were but Figures ; I had , practically , forgotten ...
... talk little , and that little mostly from the News- papers . Now when I look back , it was a strange isolation I then lived in . The men and women around me , even speaking with me , were but Figures ; I had , practically , forgotten ...
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... talk , concerning all conceivable or inconceivable things ; and liked nothing better than to have an intelligent , or failing that , even a silent and patient human listener . He distinguished himself to all that ever heard him as at ...
... talk , concerning all conceivable or inconceivable things ; and liked nothing better than to have an intelligent , or failing that , even a silent and patient human listener . He distinguished himself to all that ever heard him as at ...
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... talking ; - this one feature is perhaps the most recogniz- able ; " Our interview lasted for three hours , during which he talked two hours and three quarters . " Nothing could be more copious than his talk ; and furthermore it was ...
... talking ; - this one feature is perhaps the most recogniz- able ; " Our interview lasted for three hours , during which he talked two hours and three quarters . " Nothing could be more copious than his talk ; and furthermore it was ...
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... talk , alas , was distinguished , like himself , by irresolu- tion : it disliked to be troubled with conditions , abstinences , definite fulfilments ; loved to wander at its own sweet will , and make its auditor and his claims and ...
... talk , alas , was distinguished , like himself , by irresolu- tion : it disliked to be troubled with conditions , abstinences , definite fulfilments ; loved to wander at its own sweet will , and make its auditor and his claims and ...
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