The Essays of EliaDent, 1923 - 294 pages |
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... walking together ( weeping ) on this painful errand , Mary herself , although sad , very conscious of the necessity of a temporary separation from her only friend . They used to carry a strait waistcoat with them . ' These terrible ...
... walking together ( weeping ) on this painful errand , Mary herself , although sad , very conscious of the necessity of a temporary separation from her only friend . They used to carry a strait waistcoat with them . ' These terrible ...
Page 10
... walks unmolested , and fancy myself of what degree or standing I please . I seem admitted ad eundem . I fetch up past opportunities . I can rise at the chapel - bell , and dream that it rings for me . In moods of humility I can be a ...
... walks unmolested , and fancy myself of what degree or standing I please . I seem admitted ad eundem . I fetch up past opportunities . I can rise at the chapel - bell , and dream that it rings for me . In moods of humility I can be a ...
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... walking amid their foliage ; and the odour of their old moth- scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard . Still less have I curiosity to disturb the elder repose of MSS ...
... walking amid their foliage ; and the odour of their old moth- scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard . Still less have I curiosity to disturb the elder repose of MSS ...
Page 12
... walks in Clifford's Inn , or in the Temple . In addition to a pro- voking shortsightedness ( the effect of late studies and watchings at the midnight oil ) D. is the most absent of men . He made a call the other morning at 12 THE ESSAYS ...
... walks in Clifford's Inn , or in the Temple . In addition to a pro- voking shortsightedness ( the effect of late studies and watchings at the midnight oil ) D. is the most absent of men . He made a call the other morning at 12 THE ESSAYS ...
Page 13
... walking destinies returned him into the same neighbourhood again , and again the quiet image of the fire - side circle at M.'s Mrs. M. presiding at it like a Queen Lar , with pretty 4. S.2 at her side - striking irresistibly on his ...
... walking destinies returned him into the same neighbourhood again , and again the quiet image of the fire - side circle at M.'s Mrs. M. presiding at it like a Queen Lar , with pretty 4. S.2 at her side - striking irresistibly on his ...
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