The Last Essays of EliaF.M. Lupton Publishing Company, 1899 - 238 pages |
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Page 178
... hour , which at length approached , when after a protracted breakfast of three hours - if stores of cold fowls , tongues , ham , botargoes , dried fruits , wines , cordials , etc. , can deserve so meager an appellation - the coach was ...
... hour , which at length approached , when after a protracted breakfast of three hours - if stores of cold fowls , tongues , ham , botargoes , dried fruits , wines , cordials , etc. , can deserve so meager an appellation - the coach was ...
Page 255
... hour at which he can begin to think of abandoning his pillow . To think of it , we say ; for to do it in earnest requires another half hour's good considera- tion . Not but there are pretty sunrisings , as we are told , and such like ...
... hour at which he can begin to think of abandoning his pillow . To think of it , we say ; for to do it in earnest requires another half hour's good considera- tion . Not but there are pretty sunrisings , as we are told , and such like ...
Page 256
... hours of the dawn too sacred to waste them upon such observances ; which have in them , besides , something Pagan and Persic . To say truth , we never anticipated our usual hour , or got up with the sun ( as ' tis called ) , to go a ...
... hours of the dawn too sacred to waste them upon such observances ; which have in them , besides , something Pagan and Persic . To say truth , we never anticipated our usual hour , or got up with the sun ( as ' tis called ) , to go a ...
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Blakesmoor in Hshire | 5 |
Poor Relations | 14 |
Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading | 25 |
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