The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1901 - 254 pages |
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Page 8
... leave this place ; But , lest your fetters prove too weak , Ere I your silken bondage break , Do you , O brambles , chain me too , And , courteous briars , nail me through . I was here as in a lonely temple . Snug firesides - the low ...
... leave this place ; But , lest your fetters prove too weak , Ere I your silken bondage break , Do you , O brambles , chain me too , And , courteous briars , nail me through . I was here as in a lonely temple . Snug firesides - the low ...
Page 33
... the lighter causes below , leaving to his two brethren the heavy calendars - honest Rhadamanth , always partial to players , weighing their parti - coloured existence here upon earth , -making account 2 C TO THE SHADE OF ELLISTON 33.
... the lighter causes below , leaving to his two brethren the heavy calendars - honest Rhadamanth , always partial to players , weighing their parti - coloured existence here upon earth , -making account 2 C TO THE SHADE OF ELLISTON 33.
Page 39
... leaving me to chew upon his new- blown dignities at leisure . to it . Expressive silence This was his great style . In fact , nothing could be said alone could muse his praise . But was he less great ( be witness , O ye Powers of ...
... leaving me to chew upon his new- blown dignities at leisure . to it . Expressive silence This was his great style . In fact , nothing could be said alone could muse his praise . But was he less great ( be witness , O ye Powers of ...
Page 43
... leaves , ” to come bolt upon a withering Population Essay . To expect a Steele , or a Farquhar , and find — Adam Smith . To view a well - arranged assortment of block- headed Encyclopædias ( Anglicanas or Metropolitanas ) set out in an ...
... leaves , ” to come bolt upon a withering Population Essay . To expect a Steele , or a Farquhar , and find — Adam Smith . To view a well - arranged assortment of block- headed Encyclopædias ( Anglicanas or Metropolitanas ) set out in an ...
Page 44
... leaves , and worn out appearance , nay , the very odour ( beyond Russia ) , if we would not forget kind feelings in fastidiousness , of an old " Circulating Library " Tom Jones , or Vicar of Wakefield ! How they speak of the thousand ...
... leaves , and worn out appearance , nay , the very odour ( beyond Russia ) , if we would not forget kind feelings in fastidiousness , of an old " Circulating Library " Tom Jones , or Vicar of Wakefield ! How they speak of the thousand ...
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