The Last Essays of EliaG. Routledge & sons, 1880 - 119 pages |
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Page 46
... light . for me with their jokes and conun- I missed my old chains , forsooth , drums the ruggedness of my pro- as if ... light - excluding , pent - up offices , where candles for one half the year supplied the place of the sun's light ...
... light . for me with their jokes and conun- I missed my old chains , forsooth , drums the ruggedness of my pro- as if ... light - excluding , pent - up offices , where candles for one half the year supplied the place of the sun's light ...
Page 114
... light us to . Why should we get up ? must our ancestors have spent , wintering in caves and unillumined fastnesses ! They must have lain about and grumbled at one ano- ther in the dark . What repartees could have passed , when you must ...
... light us to . Why should we get up ? must our ancestors have spent , wintering in caves and unillumined fastnesses ! They must have lain about and grumbled at one ano- ther in the dark . What repartees could have passed , when you must ...
Page 115
... light we must approach to their perusal , if we would catch the flame , the odour . It is a mockery , all that is reported of the influential Phoebus . No true poem ever owed its birth to the sun's light . They are abstracted works ...
... light we must approach to their perusal , if we would catch the flame , the odour . It is a mockery , all that is reported of the influential Phoebus . No true poem ever owed its birth to the sun's light . They are abstracted works ...
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