...business of a distinct class of writers.” “The writers of history seem to entertain an aristocratical contempt for the writers of memoirs. They think it...the dignity of men who describe the revolutions of natjons, to dwell on the details which constitute the charm of biography. They have imposed on themselves...

...business of a distinct class of writers." " The writers of history seem to entertain an aristocratical contempt for the writers of memoirs. They think it...bane of the French drama. The most characteristic and interesting circumstances are omitted or softened down, because, as we are told' they are too trivial...

...on the shelves of ostentatious libraries. The writers of history seem to entertain an aristocratical contempt for the writers of memoirs. They think it...bane of the French drama. The most characteristic and interesting circumstances are omitted or softened down, • because, as we are told, they are too...

...on the shelves of ostentatious libraries. The writers of history seem to entertain an aristocratical ertions. The men to whom we owe it that we have the House of Commons ar« and interesting circumstances are omitted or softened down, because, as we are told, they are too trivial...

...on the shelves of ostentatious libraries. The writers of history seem to entertain an aristocratical contempt for the writers of memoirs. They think it...bane of the French drama. The most characteristic and interesting circumstances are omitted or softened down, because, as we are told, they are too trivial...

...on the shelves of ostentatious libraries. The writers of history seem to entertain an aristocratical ntiment and severity of style, which characterize...Sonnets are more or less striking, according as lh« and interesting circumstances are omitted or softened down, because, as we are told, they are too trivial...

...seem to entertain ал aristocrática! contempt for the writers of mo moirs. They think it beurath the dignity of men who describe the revolutions of...constitute the charm of biography. They have imposed oa themselves a code of conventional decencies as absurd as that which has been the bane of the French...

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...on the shelves of ostentatious libraries. The writers of history seem to entertain an aristocratical contempt for the writers of memoirs. They think it...bane of the French drama. The most characteristic and interesting circumstances are omitted or softened down, because, as we are told, they are too trivial...

...on the shelves of ostentatious libraries. The writers of history seem to entertain an aristocratical contempt for the writers of memoirs. They think it...charm of biography. They have imposed on themselves VOL. I. T a code of conventional decencies as absurd as that which has been the bane of the French...