The Last Essays of EliaG. Routledge & sons, 1880 - 119 pages |
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... pleasure of skim- ming over with his own eye - a magazine , or a light pamphlet . I should not care to be caught in the serious avenues of some cathedral alone , and reading- Candide ! I do not remember a more whimsical surprise than ...
... pleasure of skim- ming over with his own eye - a magazine , or a light pamphlet . I should not care to be caught in the serious avenues of some cathedral alone , and reading- Candide ! I do not remember a more whimsical surprise than ...
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... pleasure of comedy . In other words , his perplexity must seem half put on . If he repel the intruder with the sober set face of a man in earnest , and more especially if he deliver his expostulations in a tone which in the world must ...
... pleasure of comedy . In other words , his perplexity must seem half put on . If he repel the intruder with the sober set face of a man in earnest , and more especially if he deliver his expostulations in a tone which in the world must ...
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... pleasure with me to Windsor this fine May morning . It is Lucretian pleasure to behold the poor drudges , whom I have left behind in the world , carking and caring ; like horses in a mill , drudging on in the same eternal round -- and ...
... pleasure with me to Windsor this fine May morning . It is Lucretian pleasure to behold the poor drudges , whom I have left behind in the world , carking and caring ; like horses in a mill , drudging on in the same eternal round -- and ...
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