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Page 47
My conceit of his person ” -it is Ben Jonson speaking of Lord Bacon- " was never
increased towards him by his place or honors . But I have , and do reverence him
for the greatness that only proper to himself ; in that he seemed to me ever one ...
My conceit of his person ” -it is Ben Jonson speaking of Lord Bacon- " was never
increased towards him by his place or honors . But I have , and do reverence him
for the greatness that only proper to himself ; in that he seemed to me ever one ...
Page 126
Or let any one read the deeper sorrows ( grief running into rage ) in the poem , —
the last in the collection accompanying the above , —which from internal
testimony I believe to be Lord Brooke's , beginning with “ Silence augmenteth
grief ...
Or let any one read the deeper sorrows ( grief running into rage ) in the poem , —
the last in the collection accompanying the above , —which from internal
testimony I believe to be Lord Brooke's , beginning with “ Silence augmenteth
grief ...
Page 143
From the words of Daniel it appears that Belshazzar had made a great feast to a
thousand of his lords , and drank wine before the thousand . The golden and
silver vessels are gorgeously enumerated , with the princes , the king's
concubines ...
From the words of Daniel it appears that Belshazzar had made a great feast to a
thousand of his lords , and drank wine before the thousand . The golden and
silver vessels are gorgeously enumerated , with the princes , the king's
concubines ...
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Contents
PrefaceBy a Friend of the Late Elia | 3 |
Poor Relations | 16 |
Stage Illusion | 35 |
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| Title | The Last Essays of Elia |
| Author | Charles Lamb |
| Illustrated by | Charles Edmund Brock |
| Contributor | Augustine Birrell |
| Publisher | Dent, 1900 |
| Original from | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Digitized | 11 Sep 2014 |
| Length | 254 pages |
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