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... feels its pro- motion . • So that you see , upon the whole , the literary dignity of Elia is very little , if at all , compromised in the condescension . Not that , in my anxious detail of the many com- modities incidental to the life ...
... feels its pro- motion . • So that you see , upon the whole , the literary dignity of Elia is very little , if at all , compromised in the condescension . Not that , in my anxious detail of the many com- modities incidental to the life ...
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... feeling , as though a palpable obscure had dimmed the face of things , and that our ancestors wandered to and fro groping ! Above all thy rarities , old Oxenford , what do most arride and solace me , are thy repositories of mouldering ...
... feeling , as though a palpable obscure had dimmed the face of things , and that our ancestors wandered to and fro groping ! Above all thy rarities , old Oxenford , what do most arride and solace me , are thy repositories of mouldering ...
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... feeling ; how magnificent , how ideal he was ; how great at the midnight hour ; and when I compare with him the companions with whom I have associated since , I grudge the saving of a few idle ducats , and think that I am fallen into ...
... feeling ; how magnificent , how ideal he was ; how great at the midnight hour ; and when I compare with him the companions with whom I have associated since , I grudge the saving of a few idle ducats , and think that I am fallen into ...
Page 55
... feels practically that he is mortal . He knows it indeed , and , if need were , he could preach a homily on the ... feel these audits but too powerfully . I begin to count the probabilities of my duration , and to grudge at the ex ...
... feels practically that he is mortal . He knows it indeed , and , if need were , he could preach a homily on the ... feel these audits but too powerfully . I begin to count the probabilities of my duration , and to grudge at the ex ...
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... feeling ; cold , numbness , dreams , perplexity ; moonlight itself , with its shadowy and spectral appearances , that cold ghost of the sun , or Phoebus ' sickly sister , like that innutri- tious one denounced in the Canticles : — - I ...
... feeling ; cold , numbness , dreams , perplexity ; moonlight itself , with its shadowy and spectral appearances , that cold ghost of the sun , or Phoebus ' sickly sister , like that innutri- tious one denounced in the Canticles : — - I ...
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