The Essays of EliaDent, 1923 - 294 pages |
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... sweet breasts , " as our ancestors would have called them , culled from club - rooms and orchestras - chorus singers - first and second violoncellos - double basses - and clarionets - who ate his cold mutton , and drank his punch , and ...
... sweet breasts , " as our ancestors would have called them , culled from club - rooms and orchestras - chorus singers - first and second violoncellos - double basses - and clarionets - who ate his cold mutton , and drank his punch , and ...
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... sweet food of academic institution , nowhere is so pleasant , to while away a few idle weeks at , as one or other of the Universities . Their vacation , too , at this time of the year , falls in so pat with ours . Here I can take my ...
... sweet food of academic institution , nowhere is so pleasant , to while away a few idle weeks at , as one or other of the Universities . Their vacation , too , at this time of the year , falls in so pat with ours . Here I can take my ...
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... sweet Calne in Wiltshire ! To this late hour of my life , I trace impressions left by the recollection of those friendless holidays . The long warm days of summer never return but they bring with them a gloom from the haunting memory of ...
... sweet Calne in Wiltshire ! To this late hour of my life , I trace impressions left by the recollection of those friendless holidays . The long warm days of summer never return but they bring with them a gloom from the haunting memory of ...
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... sweet intonations , the mysteries of Jamblichus , or Plotinus ( for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philo- sophic draughts ) , or reciting Homer in his Greek , or Pindar- -while the walls of the old Grey Friars re ...
... sweet intonations , the mysteries of Jamblichus , or Plotinus ( for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philo- sophic draughts ) , or reciting Homer in his Greek , or Pindar- -while the walls of the old Grey Friars re ...
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... sweet - natured ; F , dogged , faithful , anticipative of insult , warm - hearted , with something of the old Roman height about him . Fine , frank - hearted Fr- , 2 the present master of Hertford , with Marmaduke T- , 3 mildest of ...
... sweet - natured ; F , dogged , faithful , anticipative of insult , warm - hearted , with something of the old Roman height about him . Fine , frank - hearted Fr- , 2 the present master of Hertford , with Marmaduke T- , 3 mildest of ...
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