The Last Essays of EliaF.M. Lupton Publishing Company, 1899 - 238 pages |
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... fancy , or to soothe my vanity . I was the true descendant of those old Ws ; and not the present family of that name , who had fled the old waste places . Mine was that gallery of good old family portraits , which as I have gone over ...
... fancy , or to soothe my vanity . I was the true descendant of those old Ws ; and not the present family of that name , who had fled the old waste places . Mine was that gallery of good old family portraits , which as I have gone over ...
Page 86
... fancy , not as a humiliating contrast , but as a fair occasion for reverting to that one day's state . It seemed an " equipage eterne " from which no power of fate or fortune , once mounted , had power thereafter to dislodge him . There ...
... fancy , not as a humiliating contrast , but as a fair occasion for reverting to that one day's state . It seemed an " equipage eterne " from which no power of fate or fortune , once mounted , had power thereafter to dislodge him . There ...
Page 209
... fancy I cer- tainly possessed a larger share than my com- panions . Encouraged by their applause , I set up for a professed joker ! -I , who of all men am least fitted for such an occupation , having , in addition to the greatest ...
... fancy I cer- tainly possessed a larger share than my com- panions . Encouraged by their applause , I set up for a professed joker ! -I , who of all men am least fitted for such an occupation , having , in addition to the greatest ...
Contents
Blakesmoor in Hshire | 5 |
Poor Relations | 14 |
Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading | 25 |
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