The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1901 - 254 pages |
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Page 40
... senses - the pertest little drab - a dirty fringe and appendage of the lamps ' smoke - who , it seems , on some disapprobation expressed by a " highly respectable " audience , —had precipitately quitted her station on the boards , and ...
... senses - the pertest little drab - a dirty fringe and appendage of the lamps ' smoke - who , it seems , on some disapprobation expressed by a " highly respectable " audience , —had precipitately quitted her station on the boards , and ...
Page 44
... sense of property in the owner . Thomson's Seasons , again , looks best ( I maintain it ) a little torn , and dog's - eared . How beautiful to a genuine lover of reading are the sullied leaves , and worn out appearance , nay , the very ...
... sense of property in the owner . Thomson's Seasons , again , looks best ( I maintain it ) a little torn , and dog's - eared . How beautiful to a genuine lover of reading are the sullied leaves , and worn out appearance , nay , the very ...
Page 54
... all parts of the deck , yet with kindlier ministrations -- not to assist the tempest , but , as if touched with a kindred sense of our infirmities , to soothe the qualms which that untried motion might haply raise 54 THE OLD MARGATE HOY.
... all parts of the deck , yet with kindlier ministrations -- not to assist the tempest , but , as if touched with a kindred sense of our infirmities , to soothe the qualms which that untried motion might haply raise 54 THE OLD MARGATE HOY.
Page 56
... sense of most of us would have revolted . But we were in a new world , with everything unfamiliar about us , and the time and place disposed us to the reception of any prodigious marvel whatsoever . Time has obliterated from my memory ...
... sense of most of us would have revolted . But we were in a new world , with everything unfamiliar about us , and the time and place disposed us to the reception of any prodigious marvel whatsoever . Time has obliterated from my memory ...
Page 57
... sense and intrepidity of one of our party , a youth , that had hitherto been one of his most deferential auditors , who , from his recent reading , made bold to assure the gentleman , that there must be some mistake , as " the Colossus ...
... sense and intrepidity of one of our party , a youth , that had hitherto been one of his most deferential auditors , who , from his recent reading , made bold to assure the gentleman , that there must be some mistake , as " the Colossus ...
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