The Cornhill Magazine, Volum 97William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1908 |
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... nature with a sadness of which only his nearest friends were conscious . Edward Lear was intended by nature to be an artist , and one of high calibre . He seems to have been born with a paint brush in one hand and a palette in the other ...
... nature with a sadness of which only his nearest friends were conscious . Edward Lear was intended by nature to be an artist , and one of high calibre . He seems to have been born with a paint brush in one hand and a palette in the other ...
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... Nature's hoard ! ' Lear , as I have said , was very sensitive to praise or blame : he treasured up , and liked repeating , any words of genuine appre- ciation of himself or his works which came to his ears . He did not at all relish ...
... Nature's hoard ! ' Lear , as I have said , was very sensitive to praise or blame : he treasured up , and liked repeating , any words of genuine appre- ciation of himself or his works which came to his ears . He did not at all relish ...
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... nature show its merits and defects more clearly than in his correspondence , which has the supreme merit of reflecting his mood of the moment with fatal accuracy . One cannot candidly say that all the letters selected by Lady Strachey ...
... nature show its merits and defects more clearly than in his correspondence , which has the supreme merit of reflecting his mood of the moment with fatal accuracy . One cannot candidly say that all the letters selected by Lady Strachey ...
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... nature . Never in his after life did he hear the pampero whisper in the broad green flags , or see the crested grebe swim shyly upon the river - pools without remembering those days . Nightly he would watch the sun sink from the zenith ...
... nature . Never in his after life did he hear the pampero whisper in the broad green flags , or see the crested grebe swim shyly upon the river - pools without remembering those days . Nightly he would watch the sun sink from the zenith ...
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... Nature spreads before them . It contains three poems . The poem of the flat pampa , with its whimpering winds , its grasses blown level , its lipless lagoons where water - fowl cry in the evenings . Beyond this the poem of the blue ...
... Nature spreads before them . It contains three poems . The poem of the flat pampa , with its whimpering winds , its grasses blown level , its lipless lagoons where water - fowl cry in the evenings . Beyond this the poem of the blue ...
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