The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1901 - 254 pages |
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... thee . Journeying northward lately , I could not resist going some few miles out of my road to look upon the remains of an old great house with which I had been impressed in this way in infancy . I was apprised that the owner of it had ...
... thee . Journeying northward lately , I could not resist going some few miles out of my road to look upon the remains of an old great house with which I had been impressed in this way in infancy . I was apprised that the owner of it had ...
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... 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 transfusion . Who it was by dying that had earned the splendid trophy , I know not , I inquired ...
... 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 transfusion . Who it was by dying that had earned the splendid trophy , I know not , I inquired ...
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... thee ) upon casual sands of Avernus ? or art thou enacting ROVER ( as we would gladlier think ) by wandering Elysian streams ? This mortal frame , while thou didst play thy brief antics amongst us , was in truth any thing but a prison to ...
... thee ) upon casual sands of Avernus ? or art thou enacting ROVER ( as we would gladlier think ) by wandering Elysian streams ? This mortal frame , while thou didst play thy brief antics amongst us , was in truth any thing but a prison to ...
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... thee wielding posthumous empire . Thin ghosts of Figurantes ( never plump on earth ) circle thee in endlessly , and still their song is Fie on sin- ful Phantasy . Magnificent were thy cappriccios on this globe of earth , ROBERT WILLIAM ...
... thee wielding posthumous empire . Thin ghosts of Figurantes ( never plump on earth ) circle thee in endlessly , and still their song is Fie on sin- ful Phantasy . Magnificent were thy cappriccios on this globe of earth , ROBERT WILLIAM ...
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... thee , enough to sink a navy ) ; the judge's ermine ; the coxcomb's wig ; the snuff - box à la Foppington - all must overboard , he posi- tively swears- -and that ancient mariner brooks no denial ; for , since the tiresome monodrame of ...
... thee , enough to sink a navy ) ; the judge's ermine ; the coxcomb's wig ; the snuff - box à la Foppington - all must overboard , he posi- tively swears- -and that ancient mariner brooks no denial ; for , since the tiresome monodrame of ...
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