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By Frederick Marryat

2019-10-09 18:54:56

Brief Extract: The painter who, in times of yore, exposed his canvass to universal criticism, and found to his mortification that there was not a particle of his composition which had not been pronounced defective by one pseudo-critic or another, did ... Read more
Brief Extract: The painter who, in times of yore, exposed his canvass to universal criticism, and found to his mortification that there was not a particle of his composition which had not been pronounced defective by one pseudo-critic or another, did not receive severer castigation than I have experienced from the unsolicited remarks of “damned good-natured friends.” Less

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File size330.025 KB
Print pages628
PublisherPublic Domain Book
Publication date2011-07-21
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1409710431
Captain Frederick Marryat CB FRS (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story, ...

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