The British Essayists: The AdventurerLittle, Brown, 1866 - English essays |
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... : Nothing of him that doth fade , But doth suffer a sea - change , Into something rich and strange . And then follows a most lively circumstance : Sea - nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark ! NO . 93 . 21 ADVENTURER .
... : Nothing of him that doth fade , But doth suffer a sea - change , Into something rich and strange . And then follows a most lively circumstance : Sea - nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark ! NO . 93 . 21 ADVENTURER .
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... suffered oftener than projectors , whose rapidity of imagination and vastness of design raise such envy in their fellow - mortals , that every eye watches for their fall , and every heart exults at their distresses ; yet even a ...
... suffered oftener than projectors , whose rapidity of imagination and vastness of design raise such envy in their fellow - mortals , that every eye watches for their fall , and every heart exults at their distresses ; yet even a ...
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... suffered my hair to grow long enough to comb back over the foretop of my wig , which when I sallied forth to my evening amusement , I changed to a queue ; I tied the collar of my shirt with half an ell of black ribbon , which appeared ...
... suffered my hair to grow long enough to comb back over the foretop of my wig , which when I sallied forth to my evening amusement , I changed to a queue ; I tied the collar of my shirt with half an ell of black ribbon , which appeared ...
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... suffer my resentment to instigate me to any mean arts of supplantation , nor my eagerness of riches to betray me to any indirect methods of gain ; I pursued my business with incessant assiduity , supported by the hope of being one day ...
... suffer my resentment to instigate me to any mean arts of supplantation , nor my eagerness of riches to betray me to any indirect methods of gain ; I pursued my business with incessant assiduity , supported by the hope of being one day ...
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... suffer perpetual dis- appointment ; and , indeed , they concurred to injure an infant which they could not behold with com- placency , by sending her with only one attendant to a remote castle which stood on the confines of a wood ...
... suffer perpetual dis- appointment ; and , indeed , they concurred to injure an infant which they could not behold with com- placency , by sending her with only one attendant to a remote castle which stood on the confines of a wood ...
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