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... Strange error of our infatuated self - love ! Because the clothes we remember to have seen worn when we were children are now out of fashion , and our grandmothers were then old women , we con- ceive , with magnanimous continuity of ...
... Strange error of our infatuated self - love ! Because the clothes we remember to have seen worn when we were children are now out of fashion , and our grandmothers were then old women , we con- ceive , with magnanimous continuity of ...
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... strange matters . ” + Midnight and secret murders , too , from the imperfect state of the police , were more common ; and the fero- cious and brutal manners that would stamp the brow of the hardened ruffian or hired assassin , more ...
... strange matters . ” + Midnight and secret murders , too , from the imperfect state of the police , were more common ; and the fero- cious and brutal manners that would stamp the brow of the hardened ruffian or hired assassin , more ...
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... strange and desperate catastrophes . The tales of Boccaccio are founded on the great pestilence of Florence , * Fletcher the poet died . of the plague , † and Marlowe was stabbed in a tavern quarrel . The strict authority of parents ...
... strange and desperate catastrophes . The tales of Boccaccio are founded on the great pestilence of Florence , * Fletcher the poet died . of the plague , † and Marlowe was stabbed in a tavern quarrel . The strict authority of parents ...
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... strange to see a ragged clerk , Some stammell weaver , or some butcher's son , That scrubb'd alate within a sleeveless gown , When the commencement , like a morrice dance , Hath put a bell or two about his legs , Created him a sweet ...
... strange to see a ragged clerk , Some stammell weaver , or some butcher's son , That scrubb'd alate within a sleeveless gown , When the commencement , like a morrice dance , Hath put a bell or two about his legs , Created him a sweet ...
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... strange hold of my fancy , perhaps " out of my weakness and my melancholy ; " but for the satisfaction of the reader , I will quote the whole passage : It is silly sooth , and dallies with the innocence of love , like the old age ...
... strange hold of my fancy , perhaps " out of my weakness and my melancholy ; " but for the satisfaction of the reader , I will quote the whole passage : It is silly sooth , and dallies with the innocence of love , like the old age ...
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