The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1900 - 254 pages |
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Page 131
... half our fair sleep , fasting , with only a dim vista of refreshing bohea in the distance , -to be necessitated to rouse our- selves at the detestable rap of an old hag of a domestic , who seemed to take a diabolical pleas- ure in her ...
... half our fair sleep , fasting , with only a dim vista of refreshing bohea in the distance , -to be necessitated to rouse our- selves at the detestable rap of an old hag of a domestic , who seemed to take a diabolical pleas- ure in her ...
Page 146
... half - impassioned by- standers , and the still more irrelevant herd of passers - by at a distance , who have not heard , or but faintly have been told , of the passing miracle , admirable as they are in design and hue - for it is a ...
... half - impassioned by- standers , and the still more irrelevant herd of passers - by at a distance , who have not heard , or but faintly have been told , of the passing miracle , admirable as they are in design and hue - for it is a ...
Page 150
... half - ludicrous , but more than half - compas- sionable and admirable errors , not infliction enough from heaven , that men by studied artifices must devise and practise upon the humor , to inflame where they should soothe it ? Why ...
... half - ludicrous , but more than half - compas- sionable and admirable errors , not infliction enough from heaven , that men by studied artifices must devise and practise upon the humor , to inflame where they should soothe it ? Why ...
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admirable appeared April Fool artist beautiful Belshazzar better character CHARLES LAMB cheerful child conceit confess DAN STUART day's pleasuring discommendable doth dreams Elliston ESSAYS OF ELIA face faculties fancy feel genius gentleman give grace guests half hand head heard heart heaven honor hour humor imagination impertinent knew lady LAST ESSAYS late leave less look Lord Lord Mayor's Day Margate ment mighty mind mirth morning mortal nature ness never night notion occasion once pain passion person play pleasant pleasure poor present pretty Quarter Days readers remember scarce seemed seen sense sight sion Sir Philip Sydney sleep Somerset House sort speak spirit sure sweet taste theatre thee thing thou thought tion Titian told true truth uncon walk watchet whole wish wonder young youth