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We can see Reynolds's pictures, we can hear Handel's music, we can read Goldsmith's and Johnson's books; but of Garrick what can we have but a name, and somebody's account of what he thought of Garrick? The touch of Shakespeare we can feel as well as did our ancestors, and our great-grandchildren's great-grandchildren will feel it as fully as we.
Yes, she knew how to sew and embroider, and transfer with a vengeance, that old grandam! She beheld Inger, put on her spectacles, and looked at her. "That is a girl with talents," said she. "I shall ask for her as a souvenir of my visit here; she may do very well as a statue to ornament my great-grandchildren's antechamber;" and she took her. It was thus little Inger went to the infernal regions.
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