The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1901 - 254 pages |
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Page 9
... nights , hast detained my steps from bedward , till it was but a step from gazing at thee to dreaming on thee . This is the only true gentry by adoption ; the veritable change of blood , and not , as empirics have fabled , by ...
... nights , hast detained my steps from bedward , till it was but a step from gazing at thee to dreaming on thee . This is the only true gentry by adoption ; the veritable change of blood , and not , as empirics have fabled , by ...
Page 36
... night , the poorest hovel which he honours by his sleeping in it , becomes ipso facto for that time a palace ; so wherever Elliston walked , sate , or stood still , there was the theatre . He - carried about with him his pit , boxes ...
... night , the poorest hovel which he honours by his sleeping in it , becomes ipso facto for that time a palace ; so wherever Elliston walked , sate , or stood still , there was the theatre . He - carried about with him his pit , boxes ...
Page 49
... night - having ordered your supper — what can be more delightful than to find lying in the window - seat , left there time out of mind by the carelessness of some former guest - two or three numbers of the old Town and Country Magazine ...
... night - having ordered your supper — what can be more delightful than to find lying in the window - seat , left there time out of mind by the carelessness of some former guest - two or three numbers of the old Town and Country Magazine ...
Page 58
... nights , to which these vessels then were oftentimes obliged to prolong their voyage . Upon a nearer acquaint- ance with him , which he seemed neither to court nor decline , we learned that he was going to Margate , with the hope of ...
... nights , to which these vessels then were oftentimes obliged to prolong their voyage . Upon a nearer acquaint- ance with him , which he seemed neither to court nor decline , we learned that he was going to Margate , with the hope of ...
Page 60
... night , Incessant labouring round the stormy Cape ; " " of fatal rocks , and the " still - vexed Bermoothes ; of great whirlpools , and the water - spout ; of sunken ships , and sumless treasures swallowed up in the unrestoring depths ...
... night , Incessant labouring round the stormy Cape ; " " of fatal rocks , and the " still - vexed Bermoothes ; of great whirlpools , and the water - spout ; of sunken ships , and sumless treasures swallowed up in the unrestoring depths ...
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