The Last Essays of EliaG. Routledge & sons, 1880 - 119 pages |
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Page 88
... wonder it was to see how , as years went round in heaven - a year in dreams is as a day - continually its white shoulders put forth buds of wings , but wanting the perfect angelic nutriment , anon was shorn of its aspiring , and fell ...
... wonder it was to see how , as years went round in heaven - a year in dreams is as a day - continually its white shoulders put forth buds of wings , but wanting the perfect angelic nutriment , anon was shorn of its aspiring , and fell ...
Page 107
... wonder . It was never sung to- no one ever told to it a tale of the nursery . It was dragged up , to live or to die as it happened . It had no young dreams . It broke at once into the iron realities of life . A child exists not for the ...
... wonder . It was never sung to- no one ever told to it a tale of the nursery . It was dragged up , to live or to die as it happened . It had no young dreams . It broke at once into the iron realities of life . A child exists not for the ...
Page 114
... wonder how they saw to pick up a pin , if they had any . How did they sup ? what a mélange of chance carving they must have made of it ! -here one had got a leg of a goat , when he wanted a horse's shoulder- there another had dipped his ...
... wonder how they saw to pick up a pin , if they had any . How did they sup ? what a mélange of chance carving they must have made of it ! -here one had got a leg of a goat , when he wanted a horse's shoulder- there another had dipped his ...
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