Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A.: Of Trinity College, Cambridge, Extracted from His Letters and Diaries, with Reminiscences of His ConversationHenry Holt, 1886 - 226 pages |
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... stories about him , selecting them out of a large number . His mother saying to him one day that the gardener was dead , he burst out laughing ( with that curious hysteria so common in children ) , and then after a little asked if they ...
... stories about him , selecting them out of a large number . His mother saying to him one day that the gardener was dead , he burst out laughing ( with that curious hysteria so common in children ) , and then after a little asked if they ...
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... stories about dead men and women , and a figure which sat on the seaward cape and wept , with long hair drooping all over her ; and , worst of all , of two boys , dressed in an antique dress , whom to see was certain disaster , and to ...
... stories about dead men and women , and a figure which sat on the seaward cape and wept , with long hair drooping all over her ; and , worst of all , of two boys , dressed in an antique dress , whom to see was certain disaster , and to ...
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... stories attri- buted to the place seemed not wholly without cause . There are certain atmospheres , I have always held , which , as it were , infect one ; the very air has caught some contagion of evil which cannot be got rid of . There ...
... stories attri- buted to the place seemed not wholly without cause . There are certain atmospheres , I have always held , which , as it were , infect one ; the very air has caught some contagion of evil which cannot be got rid of . There ...
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... story that I do not profess to explain . I marked in my mind the nearest path to the sea , which was to the north - east— the path I actually pursued — and descended ; and then I became aware that the feeling I had expe- rienced before ...
... story that I do not profess to explain . I marked in my mind the nearest path to the sea , which was to the north - east— the path I actually pursued — and descended ; and then I became aware that the feeling I had expe- rienced before ...
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... story of those fisher- folk , half apprehended , and yet evoked and subtly clad with form and shape by the strange workshop of imagination ? " To all of these I am quite content to say ' Yes . ' The sight does not trouble me , or ...
... story of those fisher- folk , half apprehended , and yet evoked and subtly clad with form and shape by the strange workshop of imagination ? " To all of these I am quite content to say ' Yes . ' The sight does not trouble me , or ...
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