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Page 16
... give it a worse name ) a something which , in reverence to the dead , we will place , if you please , a little on this side of the heroic . Nature certainly had been pleased to endow John Tipp with a sufficient measure of the principle ...
... give it a worse name ) a something which , in reverence to the dead , we will place , if you please , a little on this side of the heroic . Nature certainly had been pleased to endow John Tipp with a sufficient measure of the principle ...
Page 39
... give it their sanction . - B . used to say of it , in a way of half - compliment , half - irony , that it was too classical for representation . 66 of different omen . The one serene , smiling FIVE - AND - THIRTY YEARS AGO . 39.
... give it their sanction . - B . used to say of it , in a way of half - compliment , half - irony , that it was too classical for representation . 66 of different omen . The one serene , smiling FIVE - AND - THIRTY YEARS AGO . 39.
Page 50
... give no account of the platter after it . But what moved thee , wayward , spite- ful K. , to be so importunate to carry off with thee , in spite of tears and adjurations to thee to forbear , the Letters of that princely woman , the ...
... give no account of the platter after it . But what moved thee , wayward , spite- ful K. , to be so importunate to carry off with thee , in spite of tears and adjurations to thee to forbear , the Letters of that princely woman , the ...
Page 54
... give the rule to my unpractised steps , and regulate the tone of my moral being ! ______ sym- That I am fond of indulging , beyond a hope of pathy , in such retrospection , may be the symptom of some sickly idiosyncrasy . Or is it ...
... give the rule to my unpractised steps , and regulate the tone of my moral being ! ______ sym- That I am fond of indulging , beyond a hope of pathy , in such retrospection , may be the symptom of some sickly idiosyncrasy . Or is it ...
Page 56
... give it its mildest name -- does more especially haunt and beset me . In a genial August noon , beneath a sweltering sky , death is almost problematic . At those times do such poor snakes as myself enjoy an immor- tality . Then we ...
... give it its mildest name -- does more especially haunt and beset me . In a genial August noon , beneath a sweltering sky , death is almost problematic . At those times do such poor snakes as myself enjoy an immor- tality . Then we ...
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