The British Essayists: The AdventurerLittle, Brown, 1866 - English essays |
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... hand sustains , Tired with the way , and recent from her pains ; For ' mid yon tangled hazels as we pass'd , On the bare flints her hapless twins she cast , The hopes and promise of my ruin'd fold ! WARTON . " The description of ...
... hand sustains , Tired with the way , and recent from her pains ; For ' mid yon tangled hazels as we pass'd , On the bare flints her hapless twins she cast , The hopes and promise of my ruin'd fold ! WARTON . " The description of ...
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... hand , Sir , ' said he , ' I think it scarce less a misfortune to myself than you , that you was not five minutes sooner in your application . The gentleman whose recommendation you bring , I wish more than any other to oblige ; but I ...
... hand , Sir , ' said he , ' I think it scarce less a misfortune to myself than you , that you was not five minutes sooner in your application . The gentleman whose recommendation you bring , I wish more than any other to oblige ; but I ...
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... hand , and told me , in an ecstasy , that he was in heaven . What difference in Curio's circumstances produced this difference in his sensations and behaviour ? What prodigious advantage had now accrued to the man , who before had ease ...
... hand , and told me , in an ecstasy , that he was in heaven . What difference in Curio's circumstances produced this difference in his sensations and behaviour ? What prodigious advantage had now accrued to the man , who before had ease ...
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... hand a little switch , which , as it has been long ap- pendant to the character that I had just assumed , has taken the same name , and is called a Jemmy . " I soon perceived the advantage of this transfor- mation . My manner had not ...
... hand a little switch , which , as it has been long ap- pendant to the character that I had just assumed , has taken the same name , and is called a Jemmy . " I soon perceived the advantage of this transfor- mation . My manner had not ...
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... ; the mission of Raphael to Adam ; the con- versations between Adam and his wife ; the creation ; the account which Adam gives of his first sensations , and of the approach of Eve from the hand of NO . 101 . 67 ADVENTURER .
... ; the mission of Raphael to Adam ; the con- versations between Adam and his wife ; the creation ; the account which Adam gives of his first sensations , and of the approach of Eve from the hand of NO . 101 . 67 ADVENTURER .
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