The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1901 - 254 pages |
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Page 61
... latter occu- pation here . Their faces become the place . I like a smuggler . He is the only honest thief . He robs noth- ing but the revenue , -- an abstraction I never greatly cared about . I could go out with them in their mackarel ...
... latter occu- pation here . Their faces become the place . I like a smuggler . He is the only honest thief . He robs noth- ing but the revenue , -- an abstraction I never greatly cared about . I could go out with them in their mackarel ...
Page 74
... and the little wits are differenced ; that if the latter wander ever so little from nature or actual existence , they lose themselves , and their readers . Their phantoms are lawless ; their visions night- 74 SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS.
... and the little wits are differenced ; that if the latter wander ever so little from nature or actual existence , they lose themselves , and their readers . Their phantoms are lawless ; their visions night- 74 SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS.
Page 88
... latter years , had increased to such a degree , that it was visible in all the lines of my countenance . My health and my good spirits flagged . I had perpetually a dread of some crisis , to which I should be found unequal . Besides my ...
... latter years , had increased to such a degree , that it was visible in all the lines of my countenance . My health and my good spirits flagged . I had perpetually a dread of some crisis , to which I should be found unequal . Besides my ...
Page 99
... latter in his delightful retreat at Shene ? They scent of Nimeguen , and the Hague . Scarce an authority is quoted under an ambassador . Don Francisco de Melo , a " Portugal Envoy in England , " tells him it was frequent in his country ...
... latter in his delightful retreat at Shene ? They scent of Nimeguen , and the Hague . Scarce an authority is quoted under an ambassador . Don Francisco de Melo , a " Portugal Envoy in England , " tells him it was frequent in his country ...
Page 103
... latter . " Certain it is , " he says , " that , whether the fierceness of the Gothic humours , or noise of their per- petual wars , frighted it away , or that the unequal mixture of the modern languages would not bear it - the great ...
... latter . " Certain it is , " he says , " that , whether the fierceness of the Gothic humours , or noise of their per- petual wars , frighted it away , or that the unequal mixture of the modern languages would not bear it - the great ...
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