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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 Hertfordshire . ] tions , old and
young , that ...
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 Hertfordshire . ] tions , old and
young , that ...
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tions , old and young , that have found consolation therethe meek pastor — the
docile parishioner . With no disturbing emotions , no cross conflicting
comparisons , drink in the tranquillity of the place , till thou thyself become as
fixed and ...
tions , old and young , that have found consolation therethe meek pastor — the
docile parishioner . With no disturbing emotions , no cross conflicting
comparisons , drink in the tranquillity of the place , till thou thyself become as
fixed and ...
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Mine too , BlakesMOOR , was thy noble Marble Hall , with its mosaic pavements ,
and its Twelve Cęsars — stately busts in marble - ranged round : of whose
countenances , young reader of faces as I was , the frowning beauty of Nero , I ...
Mine too , BlakesMOOR , was thy noble Marble Hall , with its mosaic pavements ,
and its Twelve Cęsars — stately busts in marble - ranged round : of whose
countenances , young reader of faces as I was , the frowning beauty of Nero , I ...
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He thought himself ridiculous in a garb , under which Latimer must have walked
erect ; and in which Hooker , in his young days , possibly flaunted in a vein of no
discommendable vanity . In the depth of college shades , or in his lonely chamber
...
He thought himself ridiculous in a garb , under which Latimer must have walked
erect ; and in which Hooker , in his young days , possibly flaunted in a vein of no
discommendable vanity . In the depth of college shades , or in his lonely chamber
...
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... formed an obvious division between the boys who lived above ( however
brought together in a common school ) and the boys whose paternal residence
was on the plain ; a sufficient cause of hostility in the code of these young
Grotiuses .
... formed an obvious division between the boys who lived above ( however
brought together in a common school ) and the boys whose paternal residence
was on the plain ; a sufficient cause of hostility in the code of these young
Grotiuses .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Last Essays of Elia |
| Author | Charles Lamb |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Dent, 1901 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 28 Jan 2009 |
| Length | 254 pages |
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