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... walks about his suburban retreat ( as he called it ) at Shacklewell , some children belonging to a school of industry had met us , and bowed and curtseyed , as he thought , in an especial manner to him . " They take me for a visiting ...
... walks about his suburban retreat ( as he called it ) at Shacklewell , some children belonging to a school of industry had met us , and bowed and curtseyed , as he thought , in an especial manner to him . " They take me for a visiting ...
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... walks and wind- ings of BLAKESMOOR ! for this , or what sin of mine , has the plough passed over your pleasant places ? I sometimes think that as men , when they die , do not die all , so of their extinguished habitations there may be a ...
... walks and wind- ings of BLAKESMOOR ! for this , or what sin of mine , has the plough passed over your pleasant places ? I sometimes think that as men , when they die , do not die all , so of their extinguished habitations there may be a ...
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... walking , I am reading ; I cannot sit and think . Books think for me . I have no repugnances . Shaftesbury is not too genteel for me , nor Jonathan Wild too low . I can read any thing which I call a book . There are things in that shape ...
... walking , I am reading ; I cannot sit and think . Books think for me . I have no repugnances . Shaftesbury is not too genteel for me , nor Jonathan Wild too low . I can read any thing which I call a book . There are things in that shape ...
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... walk on the green - sward of their accus- tomed Twickenham meadows ! • I would ask of one of these sea - charmed emi- grants , who think they truly love the sea , with its wild usages , what would their feelings be , if some of the ...
... walk on the green - sward of their accus- tomed Twickenham meadows ! • I would ask of one of these sea - charmed emi- grants , who think they truly love the sea , with its wild usages , what would their feelings be , if some of the ...
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... walks familiar as in his native paths . He ascends the empyrean heaven , and is not intoxicated . He treads the burning marl without dismay ; he wins his flight without self - loss through realms of chaos " and old night . " Or if ...
... walks familiar as in his native paths . He ascends the empyrean heaven , and is not intoxicated . He treads the burning marl without dismay ; he wins his flight without self - loss through realms of chaos " and old night . " Or if ...
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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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