The Last Essays of EliaJ.M. Dent and Company, 1903 - 277 pages |
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Page xviii
... half visionary , half mythologic , perhaps before the Flood , or altogether out of time - of which a recol- lection , or a vague concomitant consciousness , hovers in the mind always when reading him , whatever be the year of his life ...
... half visionary , half mythologic , perhaps before the Flood , or altogether out of time - of which a recol- lection , or a vague concomitant consciousness , hovers in the mind always when reading him , whatever be the year of his life ...
Page xlvii
... half a Single Personality and half a Unique Literature - Elia and the Essays of Elia . And if a great part of the riches of this Personality , for us , and of this Literature , is what is called his Humour , does it not follow from what ...
... half a Single Personality and half a Unique Literature - Elia and the Essays of Elia . And if a great part of the riches of this Personality , for us , and of this Literature , is what is called his Humour , does it not follow from what ...
Page 140
... half the tyranny , which this necessity exercised upon us . Half a dozen jests in a day ( bating Sundays too ) , why , it seems nothing ! We make twice the number every day in our lives as a matter of course , and claim no Sabbatical ...
... half the tyranny , which this necessity exercised upon us . Half a dozen jests in a day ( bating Sundays too ) , why , it seems nothing ! We make twice the number every day in our lives as a matter of course , and claim no Sabbatical ...
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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