The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1901 - 254 pages |
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... thought , as it is the feeder of love , and silence , and admiration . So strange a passion for the place possessed me in those years , that , though there lay - I shame to say how few roods distant from the mansion - half hid by trees ...
... thought , as it is the feeder of love , and silence , and admiration . So strange a passion for the place possessed me in those years , that , though there lay - I shame to say how few roods distant from the mansion - half hid by trees ...
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... thoughts of fled posterity . That Beauty with the cool blue pastoral drapery , and a lamb - that hung next the great bay window - with the bright yellow H -shire hair , and eye of watchet hue— so like my Alice ! I am persuaded she was a ...
... thoughts of fled posterity . That Beauty with the cool blue pastoral drapery , and a lamb - that hung next the great bay window - with the bright yellow H -shire hair , and eye of watchet hue— so like my Alice ! I am persuaded she was a ...
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Charles Lamb. He school array ) clung to him with Nessian venom . thought himself ridiculous in a garb , under which Latimer must have walked erect ; and in which Hooker , in his young days , possibly flaunted in a vein of no discommend ...
Charles Lamb. He school array ) clung to him with Nessian venom . thought himself ridiculous in a garb , under which Latimer must have walked erect ; and in which Hooker , in his young days , possibly flaunted in a vein of no discommend ...
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... thought he was the owner of all that money . Awful ideas of the Tower twined themselves about his presence . He seemed above human infirmities and passions . A sort of melancholy grandeur invested him . From some inexplicable doom I ...
... thought he was the owner of all that money . Awful ideas of the Tower twined themselves about his presence . He seemed above human infirmities and passions . A sort of melancholy grandeur invested him . From some inexplicable doom I ...
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... thought that came over me : Perhaps he will never come here again . " He had been pressed to take another plate of the viand , which I have already mentioned as the indis- pensable concomitant of his visits . He had refused with a ...
... thought that came over me : Perhaps he will never come here again . " He had been pressed to take another plate of the viand , which I have already mentioned as the indis- pensable concomitant of his visits . He had refused with a ...
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