The Last Essays of EliaG. Routledge & sons, 1880 - 119 pages |
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Page 62
... kind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in a face , The lineaments of Gospel books- I trow that count'nance cannot lye , Whose thoughts are legible in the eye . * * Above all others this is he , Which erst ...
... kind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in a face , The lineaments of Gospel books- I trow that count'nance cannot lye , Whose thoughts are legible in the eye . * * Above all others this is he , Which erst ...
Page 95
... kind of character than either of his predecessors . He divides the palm more equably , and allows his hero a sort of dimidiate pre- eminence : Bully Dawson kicked by half the town , and half the town kicked by Bully Dawson . " This was ...
... kind of character than either of his predecessors . He divides the palm more equably , and allows his hero a sort of dimidiate pre- eminence : Bully Dawson kicked by half the town , and half the town kicked by Bully Dawson . " This was ...
Page 100
... kind is the following , recorded with a sort | of stigma , in one of Swift's Mis- cellanies . An Oxford scholar , meeting a porter , who was carrying a hare through the streets , accosts him with this extraordinary question : " Prithee ...
... kind is the following , recorded with a sort | of stigma , in one of Swift's Mis- cellanies . An Oxford scholar , meeting a porter , who was carrying a hare through the streets , accosts him with this extraordinary question : " Prithee ...
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