The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1901 - 254 pages |
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Page 6
... least out of the cheerful store - room , in whose hot window - seat 1 used to sit and read Cowley , with the grass - plot before , and the hum and flappings of that one solitary wasp that ever haunted it about me - it is in mine ears ...
... least out of the cheerful store - room , in whose hot window - seat 1 used to sit and read Cowley , with the grass - plot before , and the hum and flappings of that one solitary wasp that ever haunted it about me - it is in mine ears ...
Page 9
... owners of the mansion had least reason to complain . They had long forsaken the old house of their fathers for a newer trifle ; and I was left to appropriate to myself what images I could pick up , to raise my BLAKESMOOR IN HSHIRE 9.
... owners of the mansion had least reason to complain . They had long forsaken the old house of their fathers for a newer trifle ; and I was left to appropriate to myself what images I could pick up , to raise my BLAKESMOOR IN HSHIRE 9.
Page 18
... -s ; or what does she at their house ? " She is , in all probability , your wife's cousin . Nine times out of ten , at least , this is the case . Her garb is something To94 99 between a gentlewoman and a beggar , yet 18 POOR RELATIONS.
... -s ; or what does she at their house ? " She is , in all probability , your wife's cousin . Nine times out of ten , at least , this is the case . Her garb is something To94 99 between a gentlewoman and a beggar , yet 18 POOR RELATIONS.
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... least does not always demand from the performer that strict abstraction from all refer- ence to an audience which is exacted of it ; but that in some cases a sort of compromise may take place , and all the purposes of dramatic delight ...
... least does not always demand from the performer that strict abstraction from all refer- ence to an audience which is exacted of it ; but that in some cases a sort of compromise may take place , and all the purposes of dramatic delight ...
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... least reprehensible in players . Cibber was his own Foppington , with almost as much wit as Vanbrugh could add to it . " My conceit of his person , ” — it is Ben Jonson speak- ing of Lord Bacon , - " was never increased towards him by ...
... least reprehensible in players . Cibber was his own Foppington , with almost as much wit as Vanbrugh could add to it . " My conceit of his person , ” — it is Ben Jonson speak- ing of Lord Bacon , - " was never increased towards him by ...
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