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I have never understood why critics should still stamp on her grave for it ; as if we could still , like her contemporaries , regard Piozzi as impossible for the four not very valid reasons that he was obscure , a musician , an Italian ...
I have never understood why critics should still stamp on her grave for it ; as if we could still , like her contemporaries , regard Piozzi as impossible for the four not very valid reasons that he was obscure , a musician , an Italian ...
Pagina 156
Clean your teeth properly ; cut your nails properly ; use your handkerchief properly ; and never laugh . ( A gentleman never laughs ; the noise is ' disagreeable ' , and the distortion ' shocking ' . Chesterfield himself has never ...
Clean your teeth properly ; cut your nails properly ; use your handkerchief properly ; and never laugh . ( A gentleman never laughs ; the noise is ' disagreeable ' , and the distortion ' shocking ' . Chesterfield himself has never ...
Pagina 336
Or there is Mrs Croaker's rebuke to her husband's talk of ' our bad world ' - ' Never mind the world , my dear ; you were never in a pleasanter place in your life . ' All the same , Sheridan could have given us far more wit in far less ...
Or there is Mrs Croaker's rebuke to her husband's talk of ' our bad world ' - ' Never mind the world , my dear ; you were never in a pleasanter place in your life . ' All the same , Sheridan could have given us far more wit in far less ...
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