The Last Essays of EliaG. Routledge & sons, 1880 - 119 pages |
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Page 43
... admirable as the institution of them is for purposes of worship , are for that very reason the very worst adapted for days of unbending and recrea- tion . In particular , there is a gloom for me attendant upon a City Sunday , a weight ...
... admirable as the institution of them is for purposes of worship , are for that very reason the very worst adapted for days of unbending and recrea- tion . In particular , there is a gloom for me attendant upon a City Sunday , a weight ...
Page 74
... admirable errors , not infliction enough from heaven , that men by studied arti- fices must devise and practice upon the humour , to inflame where they should soothe it ? Why , Goneril would have blushed to practise upon the abdicated ...
... admirable errors , not infliction enough from heaven , that men by studied arti- fices must devise and practice upon the humour , to inflame where they should soothe it ? Why , Goneril would have blushed to practise upon the abdicated ...
Page 100
... admirable the cold quibble from Virgil about the broken Cremona ; * because it is made out in all its parts , and leaves nothing to the imagination . We venture to call it cold ; be- cause of thousands who have ad- mired it , it would ...
... admirable the cold quibble from Virgil about the broken Cremona ; * because it is made out in all its parts , and leaves nothing to the imagination . We venture to call it cold ; be- cause of thousands who have ad- mired it , it would ...
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