 A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur,...  The British Essayists;: Rambler - Strana xviiipodľa Alexander Chalmers - 1808Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Helen Deutsch - 2005 - Počet stránok 337
...A transition from an author's books to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing...turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendor, grandeur, and magnif1cence; but, when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with... | |
 | 1845 - Počet stránok 492
...he tells us, ' from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing...and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, d magnificence ; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced... | |
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