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... - fashioned education than Lamb . His head , so he tells us , had not many mansions , nor spacious , but he had imagination , taste , and spirit , and he imbibed the old humanities at every pore . He never INTRODUCTION xvii.
... - fashioned education than Lamb . His head , so he tells us , had not many mansions , nor spacious , but he had imagination , taste , and spirit , and he imbibed the old humanities at every pore . He never INTRODUCTION xvii.
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... spirits was dispensed with . - This fancy of dungeons for children was a sprout of Howard's brain ; for which ( saving the rever- ence due to Holy Paul ) methinks , I could willingly spit upon his statue . rather pale , a glass of ...
... spirits was dispensed with . - This fancy of dungeons for children was a sprout of Howard's brain ; for which ( saving the rever- ence due to Holy Paul ) methinks , I could willingly spit upon his statue . rather pale , a glass of ...
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... spirit of con- tradiction , and childish love of getting the better of thy friend ? —Then , worst cut of all ! to transport it with thee to the Gallican land- Unworthy land to harbour such a sweetness , A virtue in which all ennobling ...
... spirit of con- tradiction , and childish love of getting the better of thy friend ? —Then , worst cut of all ! to transport it with thee to the Gallican land- Unworthy land to harbour such a sweetness , A virtue in which all ennobling ...
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... sweet blood , and generous spirits , in the concoction ? Where be those puling fears of death , just now expressed or affected ? -Passed like a cloud- འ་ ག absorbed in the purging sunlight of clear poetry 62 NEW YEAR'S EVE.
... sweet blood , and generous spirits , in the concoction ? Where be those puling fears of death , just now expressed or affected ? -Passed like a cloud- འ་ ག absorbed in the purging sunlight of clear poetry 62 NEW YEAR'S EVE.
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... spirit of unsensualizing would have kept out . You , yourself , have a pretty collection of paintings - but confess to me , whether , walking in your gallery at Sand- ham , among those clear Vandykes , or among the Paul Potters in the ...
... spirit of unsensualizing would have kept out . You , yourself , have a pretty collection of paintings - but confess to me , whether , walking in your gallery at Sand- ham , among those clear Vandykes , or among the Paul Potters in the ...
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