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Page 49
... painful description of mortals ) who go on sounding your belief , and only giving you as much as they see you can swallow at a time - the nibbling pick- pockets of your patience - but one who committed downright , day - light ...
... painful description of mortals ) who go on sounding your belief , and only giving you as much as they see you can swallow at a time - the nibbling pick- pockets of your patience - but one who committed downright , day - light ...
Page 61
... pain which , dozing or waking , lay in it all the past night like a log , or palpable substance of pain , not to be removed without opening the very skull , as it seemed , to take it thence . Or he pities his long , clammy , attenuated ...
... pain which , dozing or waking , lay in it all the past night like a log , or palpable substance of pain , not to be removed without opening the very skull , as it seemed , to take it thence . Or he pities his long , clammy , attenuated ...
Page 63
... pain and grief to be lifted for a little while out of it , to submit to the encroachments of unwelcome neat- ness , and decencies which his shaken frame depre- cated ; then to be lifted into it again , for another three or four days ...
... pain and grief to be lifted for a little while out of it , to submit to the encroachments of unwelcome neat- ness , and decencies which his shaken frame depre- cated ; then to be lifted into it again , for another three or four days ...
Page 90
... pains ; I cannot tell : perhaps the play is not worth the candle . " - Monsieur Pompone , " French Am- bassador in his ( Sir William's ) time at the Hague , " certifies him , that in his life he had never heard of any man in France that ...
... pains ; I cannot tell : perhaps the play is not worth the candle . " - Monsieur Pompone , " French Am- bassador in his ( Sir William's ) time at the Hague , " certifies him , that in his life he had never heard of any man in France that ...
Page 100
... pain of heart to Barbara ! ) that when she crammed a portion of it into her mouth , she was obliged sputteringly to reject it ; and what with shame of her ill - acted part , and pain of real appe- tite at missing such a dainty , her ...
... pain of heart to Barbara ! ) that when she crammed a portion of it into her mouth , she was obliged sputteringly to reject it ; and what with shame of her ill - acted part , and pain of real appe- tite at missing such a dainty , her ...
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