| Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...unnatural in painting, which a skilful eye will easily discern from native beauty and complexion. 3. It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where...truth is not at the bottom, nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will betray herself at one lime or other. Therefore, if any man think it... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1843 - 720 pages
...¡9 hard to personate and act a part luug ; for where truth is not at the bottom, nature will alni« be endeavouring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one timí or other. Therefore, if anr mau think it convenient to seem good, let him be si-- indeed, and... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...skilful eye will easily discern from native beauty and complexion. It is hard to personate and act a pan where truth is not at the bottom, nature will always...will peep out and betray herself one time or other. Therefore, if ант man think it convenient to seem good, let him be » indeed, and then his goodness... | |
| John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...unnatural in painting, which a skilful-eye/ will easily disce'rn from native be'auty and complexion.) It is hard to pe'rsonate and act' a part lo'ng; for'/...nature will always be endeavouring to retu'rn, and will betra'y herself/ at one ti'me or oth'er. Therefore, if any man think it convenient to see'm good, let... | |
| William Dobson - 1845 - 204 pages
...were, Such a rural queen All Arcadia hath not seen.—Do. Arcades. MONDAY, March 16. Into Latin Prose. It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where...truth is not at the bottom, nature will always be endea11 vouringto return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or other. Therefore if any... | |
| John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...something unnatural in painting, which a skilful eye will easily discern from native beauty and complexion. It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where truth is not at the bottom, nature will always 9 * (ioi) I be endeavouring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or other. Therefore,... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1849 - 714 pages
...CHAPTER XIII. LAUGHTER. " It is hard to persnnnte and act a part long ; for, where truth is not mt t!« 1 bottom, nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will peep out ud lietray herself one time or other."—TILLOTSOK. THE exit of the departing visitor was watched with... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...something unnatural in painting, which a skilful eye will easily discern from native beauty and complexion. It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where...nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will betray herself at one time or other. Therefore if any man think it convenient to seem good, let him... | |
| Adolph Heimann - 1851 - 316 pages
...something unnatural in painting, which a skilful eye will easily discern from native beauty and complexion. It is hard to personate and act a part long ; for...nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will betray itself at one time or other. Therefore if any man think it convenient to seem good, let him... | |
| William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...something unnatural in painting, which a skilful eye will easily discern from native beauty and complexion. It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where...nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will betray herself at one time or other. Therefore if any man think it convenient to seem good, let him... | |
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