The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics (1809)
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834 · London : Published by R. Ackermann ... Sherwood & Co. and Walker & Co. ... and Simpkin & Marshall ... · leaf 90
. AUGUST. It is a very great pity that thiswork, which I make the record ofmy sketches of the months, is not pub-lished in the middle, in place of at thebeginning of each month, because inthat case I should write from observa-tion; whereas, as it is, I am forced to write from recollection. I have… … Ai:ui:hT. 55 \ation : tax the memory as we may,the recollection of fifty Augusts willfail to produce so vivid a feature asmay be sketched during a countrywalk on an August evening. Thebeauty of all descriptive writing liesin its truth; and the truth of such asketch consists not in generals, butin…
Fashion · Art, Decorative
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