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Page 74
... and communicated rich portions of it to his guests . It was a part of his largess , his hospitality ; it was going over his grounds ; he was lord for the time of showing them , and you the implicit lookers - up to 74 CAPTAIN JACKSON .
... and communicated rich portions of it to his guests . It was a part of his largess , his hospitality ; it was going over his grounds ; he was lord for the time of showing them , and you the implicit lookers - up to 74 CAPTAIN JACKSON .
Page 89
... Lord Shaftesbury , and Sir William Temple , are models of the genteel style in writing . We should prefer saying — of the lordly , and the gentlemanly . Nothing can be more unlike , than the inflated finical rhapsodies of Shaftesbury ...
... Lord Shaftesbury , and Sir William Temple , are models of the genteel style in writing . We should prefer saying — of the lordly , and the gentlemanly . Nothing can be more unlike , than the inflated finical rhapsodies of Shaftesbury ...
Page 125
... Lord Brooke's , --beginning with " Silence augmenteth grief , ” - and then seriously ask himself , whether the subject of such absorbing and confounding regrets could have been that thing which Lord Oxford termed him . NEWSPAPERS THIRTY ...
... Lord Brooke's , --beginning with " Silence augmenteth grief , ” - and then seriously ask himself , whether the subject of such absorbing and confounding regrets could have been that thing which Lord Oxford termed him . NEWSPAPERS THIRTY ...
Page 136
... Lord , or , as he then delighted to be called , Citizen Stanhope , deprived F. at once of the last hopes of a guinea from the last patron that had stuck by us ; and breaking up our establishment , left us to the safe , but somewhat ...
... Lord , or , as he then delighted to be called , Citizen Stanhope , deprived F. at once of the last hopes of a guinea from the last patron that had stuck by us ; and breaking up our establishment , left us to the safe , but somewhat ...
Page 155
... worse for wear . Pay Day came late , as he always does ; and Doomsday sent word - he might be expected . April Fool ( as my young lord's jester ) took upon himself to marshal the guests , and wild work he THE NEW YEAR'S COMING OF AGE . 155.
... worse for wear . Pay Day came late , as he always does ; and Doomsday sent word - he might be expected . April Fool ( as my young lord's jester ) took upon himself to marshal the guests , and wild work he THE NEW YEAR'S COMING OF AGE . 155.
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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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