The Last Essays of EliaJ.M. Dent and Company, 1903 - 277 pages |
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Page xviii
... 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 more immediately before our minds ...
... 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 more immediately before our minds ...
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Charles Lamb William MacDonald. was not thus permanent , and perhaps it was not so well worth sustaining . It disappeared in no long time ; perhaps we should say it died away inwards , and was absorbed ; at any rate he ceased to be ...
Charles Lamb William MacDonald. was not thus permanent , and perhaps it was not so well worth sustaining . It disappeared in no long time ; perhaps we should say it died away inwards , and was absorbed ; at any rate he ceased to be ...
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... Perhaps he felt within himself the elements of each of them , crowd- ing for its overt place in the range of his jeopardised faculties ; perhaps he had lived the great represent- ative moments of all human life , in aspiration and xliv ...
... Perhaps he felt within himself the elements of each of them , crowd- ing for its overt place in the range of his jeopardised faculties ; perhaps he had lived the great represent- ative moments of all human life , in aspiration and xliv ...
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | x |
HeadpieceBlakesmoor | 5 |
The terror of luckless poacher | 13 |
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