The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1901 - 254 pages |
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Page 4
... walks about his suburban treat ( as he called it ) at Shacklewell , some children belonging to a school of industry had met us , and bowed and curtseyed , as he thought , in an especial manner to him . " They take me for a visiting ...
... walks about his suburban treat ( as he called it ) at Shacklewell , some children belonging to a school of industry had met us , and bowed and curtseyed , as he thought , in an especial manner to him . " They take me for a visiting ...
Page 13
... walks and windings of BLAKESMOOR ! for this , or what sin of mine , has the plough passed over your pleasant places ? I sometimes think that as men , when they die , do not die all , so of their extinguished habitations there may be a ...
... walks and windings of BLAKESMOOR ! for this , or what sin of mine , has the plough passed over your pleasant places ? I sometimes think that as men , when they die , do not die all , so of their extinguished habitations there may be a ...
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... walking , I am reading ; I cannot sit and think . Books think for me . I have no repugnances . Shaftesbury is not too genteel. Lord Poppington in the Relapse . " A fellow will get up and spell out a. 42 DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND ...
... walking , I am reading ; I cannot sit and think . Books think for me . I have no repugnances . Shaftesbury is not too genteel. Lord Poppington in the Relapse . " A fellow will get up and spell out a. 42 DETACHED THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND ...
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... walk on the green- sward of their accustomed Twickenham meadows ! I would ask of one of these sea - charmed emigrants , who think they truly love the sea , with its wild usages , what would their feelings be , if some of the unsophisti ...
... walk on the green- sward of their accustomed Twickenham meadows ! I would ask of one of these sea - charmed emigrants , who think they truly love the sea , with its wild usages , what would their feelings be , if some of the unsophisti ...
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... walks familiar as in his native paths . He ascends the empyrean heaven , and is not intoxicated . He treads the burning marl without dis- may ; he wins his flight without self - loss through realms of chaos " and old night . " Or if ...
... walks familiar as in his native paths . He ascends the empyrean heaven , and is not intoxicated . He treads the burning marl without dis- may ; he wins his flight without self - loss through realms of chaos " and old night . " Or if ...
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