The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1901 - 254 pages |
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Page 5
... thou know the beauty of holiness ? -go alone on some week - day , borrowing the keys of good Master Sexton , traverse the cool aisles of some country church : think of the piety that has kneeled there the congrega- [ Blakesware in ...
... thou know the beauty of holiness ? -go alone on some week - day , borrowing the keys of good Master Sexton , traverse the cool aisles of some country church : think of the piety that has kneeled there the congrega- [ Blakesware in ...
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... 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 house ...
... 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 house ...
Page 9
... 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 thee . This is the only true gentry by adoption ; the veritable change of blood , and ...
... 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 thee . This is the only true gentry by adoption ; the veritable change of blood , and ...
Page 31
... thou hast flitted ? Art thou sowing thy WILD OATS yet ( the harvest time was still to come with thee ) upon casual sands of Avernus ? or art thou enacting ROVER ( as we would gladlier think ) by wandering Elysian streams ? This mortal ...
... thou hast flitted ? Art thou sowing thy WILD OATS yet ( the harvest time was still to come with thee ) upon casual sands of Avernus ? or art thou enacting ROVER ( as we would gladlier think ) by wandering Elysian streams ? This mortal ...
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... thou tenant now ? or when may we expect thy aërial house - warming ? Tartarus we know , and we have read of the Blessed Shades ; now cannot I intelligibly fancy thee in either ? Is it too much to hazard a conjecture , that ( as the ...
... thou tenant now ? or when may we expect thy aërial house - warming ? Tartarus we know , and we have read of the Blessed Shades ; now cannot I intelligibly fancy thee in either ? Is it too much to hazard a conjecture , that ( as the ...
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