The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1900 - 254 pages |
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... Many and hot were the skirmishes on this topic , the only one on which the old gentleman was ever brought out - and bad blood bred ; even sometimes almost to the recom- mencement ( so I expected ) of actual hostilities . Poor Relations .
... Many and hot were the skirmishes on this topic , the only one on which the old gentleman was ever brought out - and bad blood bred ; even sometimes almost to the recom- mencement ( so I expected ) of actual hostilities . Poor Relations .
Page 43
... expected from the as- sumed extravagances of thy secondary or mock life , nightly upon a stage - after a lenient castiga- tion , with rods lighter than of those Medusean ringlets , but just enough to " whip the offending Adam out of ...
... expected from the as- sumed extravagances of thy secondary or mock life , nightly upon a stage - after a lenient castiga- tion , with rods lighter than of those Medusean ringlets , but just enough to " whip the offending Adam out of ...
Page 58
... expected to behold ( absurdly , I grant , but , I am afraid , by the law of imagina- tion , unavoidably ) not a definite object , as those wild beasts , or that mountain compassable by the eye , but all the sea at once , THE ...
... expected to behold ( absurdly , I grant , but , I am afraid , by the law of imagina- tion , unavoidably ) not a definite object , as those wild beasts , or that mountain compassable by the eye , but all the sea at once , THE ...
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