The Last Essays of EliaJ.M. Dent and Company, 1903 - 277 pages |
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Page xvi
... affection and a desire to be dearly and explicitly loved ( and not without a prophetic sense , surely , that she would have need of that safety and protection in the terrible time to come upon her yet ) -how she may have felt lonely ...
... affection and a desire to be dearly and explicitly loved ( and not without a prophetic sense , surely , that she would have need of that safety and protection in the terrible time to come upon her yet ) -how she may have felt lonely ...
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... affection could be capable . From the early Poems and from " Rosamund Gray " we gather a sense of what kind of youth he was who " courted the fair Alice Wn . ” Much too good , of course , much too absolutely kind and sensitive and ...
... affection could be capable . From the early Poems and from " Rosamund Gray " we gather a sense of what kind of youth he was who " courted the fair Alice Wn . ” Much too good , of course , much too absolutely kind and sensitive and ...
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... affections , those merely cherishing and wholly unselfish loves of brother and sister , parent and child , nephews and aunts , grand- parents and grandchildren : those quiet , perennial , saving , human sanctities , which Literature ...
... affections , those merely cherishing and wholly unselfish loves of brother and sister , parent and child , nephews and aunts , grand- parents and grandchildren : those quiet , perennial , saving , human sanctities , which Literature ...
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | x |
HeadpieceBlakesmoor | 5 |
The terror of luckless poacher | 13 |
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LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA Charles 1775-1834 Lamb,Augustine 1850-1933 Birrell,C. E. (Charles Edmund) 1870-1938 Brock No preview available - 2016 |
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