The Last Essays of EliaG. Routledge & sons, 1880 - 119 pages |
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... confess , that much which I have heard objected to my late friend's writings was well founded . Crude they are , I grant you — a sort of unlicked , incondite things — villanously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases ...
... confess , that much which I have heard objected to my late friend's writings was well founded . Crude they are , I grant you — a sort of unlicked , incondite things — villanously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases ...
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... confess to have lain so long , insensible to the magazines and monarchies of the world alike ; to its laws , and to its literature . The hypochon- driac flatus is subsiding ; the acres , which in imagination I had spread over for the ...
... confess to have lain so long , insensible to the magazines and monarchies of the world alike ; to its laws , and to its literature . The hypochon- driac flatus is subsiding ; the acres , which in imagination I had spread over for the ...
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... confess ? -in this emer- narily more conveniently to be gency it was to me as if an Angel found at these common hostelries had spoken . Great previous exer- than in the shops and phials of tions and mine had not been in- the ...
... confess ? -in this emer- narily more conveniently to be gency it was to me as if an Angel found at these common hostelries had spoken . Great previous exer- than in the shops and phials of tions and mine had not been in- the ...
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