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Page 10
... heart withal , -long since dissi- pated , or scattered into air at the blast of the breaking of that famous BUBBLE . ― Such is the SOUTH - SEA HOUSE . At least , such it was forty years ago , when I knew it , a magnificent relic ! What ...
... heart withal , -long since dissi- pated , or scattered into air at the blast of the breaking of that famous BUBBLE . ― Such is the SOUTH - SEA HOUSE . At least , such it was forty years ago , when I knew it , a magnificent relic ! What ...
Page 11
... heart of stirring and living commerce , amid the fret and fever of speculation , — with the Bank , and the ' Change , and the India - House about thee , in the heyday of present prosperity , with their important faces , as it were , in ...
... heart of stirring and living commerce , amid the fret and fever of speculation , — with the Bank , and the ' Change , and the India - House about thee , in the heyday of present prosperity , with their important faces , as it were , in ...
Page 12
... hearts for ) are as good as anything from Herculaneum . The pounce- boxes of our days have gone retrograde . The very clerks which I remember in the South - Sea House - I speak of forty years back- had an air very different from those ...
... hearts for ) are as good as anything from Herculaneum . The pounce- boxes of our days have gone retrograde . The very clerks which I remember in the South - Sea House - I speak of forty years back- had an air very different from those ...
Page 16
... heart as the thousands which stand before it . He is the true actor , who , whether his part be a prince or a peasant , must act it with like intensity . With Tipp form was everything . His life was formal . His actions seemed ruled ...
... heart as the thousands which stand before it . He is the true actor , who , whether his part be a prince or a peasant , must act it with like intensity . With Tipp form was everything . His life was formal . His actions seemed ruled ...
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... heart of learning , under the shadow of the mighty Bodley . I can here play the gentleman , enact the student . To such a one as myself , who has been defrauded in his young years of the sweet food of academic insti- tution , nowhere is ...
... heart of learning , under the shadow of the mighty Bodley . I can here play the gentleman , enact the student . To such a one as myself , who has been defrauded in his young years of the sweet food of academic insti- tution , nowhere is ...
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