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Page 39
The exterior of them ( the things themselves being so common ) , strange to say ,
raises no sweet emotions , no tickling sense of property in the owner , Thomson's
Seasons , again , looks best ( I maintain it ) a little torn , and dog's - eared .
The exterior of them ( the things themselves being so common ) , strange to say ,
raises no sweet emotions , no tickling sense of property in the owner , Thomson's
Seasons , again , looks best ( I maintain it ) a little torn , and dog's - eared .
Page 48
... there , like another Ariel , flaming at once about 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 48 THE OLD MARGATE
HOY .
... there , like another Ariel , flaming at once about 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 48 THE OLD MARGATE
HOY .
Page 49
sense of our infirmities , to soothe the qualms which that untried motion might
haply raise in our crude land - fancies . And when the o'er - washing billows
drove us below deck ( for it was far gone in October , and we had stiff and
blowing ...
sense of our infirmities , to soothe the qualms which that untried motion might
haply raise in our crude land - fancies . And when the o'er - washing billows
drove us below deck ( for it was far gone in October , and we had stiff and
blowing ...
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Had the confident fellow told us half the legends on land , which he favoured us
with on the other element , I flatter myself the good sense of most of us would
have revolted . But we were in a new world , with everything unfamiliar about us ...
Had the confident fellow told us half the legends on land , which he favoured us
with on the other element , I flatter myself the good sense of most of us would
have revolted . But we were in a new world , with everything unfamiliar about us ...
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And here I must do justice to the good 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 ...
And here I must do justice to the good 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 ...
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| Title | Last Essays of Elia Volume 3 of Life and works of Charles Lamb : in 12 vol / Charles Lamb Volume 2 of The Temple library |
| Author | Charles Lamb |
| Editor | Augustine Birrell |
| Illustrated by | Herbert Railton |
| Publisher | J.M. Dent, 1888 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Feb 2014 |
| Length | 238 pages |
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