The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1900 - 254 pages |
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Page 14
... fancy , or to sooth my vanity . I was the true descendant of those old W- and not the present family of that name , who had fled the old waste places . -S ; Mine was that gallery of good old family por- traits , which as I have gone ...
... fancy , or to sooth my vanity . I was the true descendant of those old W- and not the present family of that name , who had fled the old waste places . -S ; Mine was that gallery of good old family por- traits , which as I have gone ...
Page 79
... fancy , not as a humiliating con- trast , but as a fair occasion for reverting to that one day's state . It seemed an equipage etern from which no power of fate or fortune , once mounted , had power thereafter to dislodge him . There is ...
... fancy , not as a humiliating con- trast , but as a fair occasion for reverting to that one day's state . It seemed an equipage etern from which no power of fate or fortune , once mounted , had power thereafter to dislodge him . There is ...
Page 191
... fancy all sorts of discourage- ments , and am ready to give up an occupation which gives me bread , from a harassing conceit of incapacity . The slightest commission given me by a friend , or any small duty which I have to perform for ...
... fancy all sorts of discourage- ments , and am ready to give up an occupation which gives me bread , from a harassing conceit of incapacity . The slightest commission given me by a friend , or any small duty which I have to perform for ...
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