A Second Treasury of the World's Great Letters: A Mixed Mailbag Including Intimate Exchanges and Cycles of Correspondence by Famed Men and Women of History and the ArtsWallace Brockway, Bart Keith Winer Simon and Schuster, 1941 - 636 pages Brockway, Wallace & Winer, Bart Keith, ed. |
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Page 83
... present it ; and , if I should present it , whether I ought to bring it myself or send it to you . Without recommenda- tion I doubt whether Giuliano would even read it , and his Ardin- ghelli might take the credit for this latest labor ...
... present it ; and , if I should present it , whether I ought to bring it myself or send it to you . Without recommenda- tion I doubt whether Giuliano would even read it , and his Ardin- ghelli might take the credit for this latest labor ...
Page 113
... present . For the face , I grant , I might well blush to offer , but the mind I shall never be ashamed to present . For though from the grace of the picture , the colors may fade by time , may give by weather , may be spotted by chance ...
... present . For the face , I grant , I might well blush to offer , but the mind I shall never be ashamed to present . For though from the grace of the picture , the colors may fade by time , may give by weather , may be spotted by chance ...
Page 262
... present master , dug me out of my winter retreat , and packing me in a deal box , jumbled me eighty miles in postchaises to my present place of abode . I was sore shaken by this expedition , which was the worst journey I ever ...
... present master , dug me out of my winter retreat , and packing me in a deal box , jumbled me eighty miles in postchaises to my present place of abode . I was sore shaken by this expedition , which was the worst journey I ever ...
Contents
A FATAL FRIENDSHIP A SERIES | 3 |
CAESAR WARNS CICERO TO STAND ALOOF FROM CIVIL STRIFE | 12 |
SENECA DENOUNCES THE MODERN TREATMENT | 17 |
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