The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1901 - 254 pages |
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... till some unlucky occasion provoking it , he would stutter out some senseless pun ( not altogether senseless perhaps , if rightly taken ) , which has stamped his char- acter for the evening . It was hit or miss with him ; but nine times ...
... till some unlucky occasion provoking it , he would stutter out some senseless pun ( not altogether senseless perhaps , if rightly taken ) , which has stamped his char- acter for the evening . It was hit or miss with him ; but nine times ...
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... till thou thyself become as fixed and motionless as the marble effigies that kneel and weep around 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 ...
... till thou thyself become as fixed and motionless as the marble effigies that kneel and weep around 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 ...
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... to the house , and such my careful- ness not to pass its strict and proper precincts , that the idle waters lay unexplored for me ; and not till late in life , curiosity prevailing over elder devotion , I found BLAKESMOOR IN H - SHIRE 7.
... to the house , and such my careful- ness not to pass its strict and proper precincts , that the idle waters lay unexplored for me ; and not till late in life , curiosity prevailing over elder devotion , I found BLAKESMOOR IN H - SHIRE 7.
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... till , every dreg of peasantry purging off , I received into myself Very Gentility ? Thou wert first in my morning eyes ; and of nights , hast detained my steps from bedward , till it was but a step from gazing at thee to dreaming on ...
... till , every dreg of peasantry purging off , I received into myself Very Gentility ? Thou wert first in my morning eyes ; and of nights , hast detained my steps from bedward , till it was but a step from gazing at thee to dreaming on ...
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... till lately , that such - an - such had been the crest of the family . His memory is unseasonable ; his compli- ments perverse ; his talk a trouble ; his stay pertinacious ; and when he goeth away , you dismiss his chair into a corner ...
... till lately , that such - an - such had been the crest of the family . His memory is unseasonable ; his compli- ments perverse ; his talk a trouble ; his stay pertinacious ; and when he goeth away , you dismiss his chair into a corner ...
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