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... give it you , if you will be pleased to accept of it . I am going on to Deepwell , and should be glad of your company , unless your habit of solitary thinking has made you , as the ancients said , either a god or a beast . " " I hope I ...
... give it you , if you will be pleased to accept of it . I am going on to Deepwell , and should be glad of your company , unless your habit of solitary thinking has made you , as the ancients said , either a god or a beast . " " I hope I ...
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... give you any . My father I never knew ; my mother died ten years ago . My nearest connection is a gentleman who is supposed to act as my guardian , and , at any rate , acts as my banker . " " Um ! Sad for the boy ! -good for the poet ...
... give you any . My father I never knew ; my mother died ten years ago . My nearest connection is a gentleman who is supposed to act as my guardian , and , at any rate , acts as my banker . " " Um ! Sad for the boy ! -good for the poet ...
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... give the Inns of Court , in their physical capacity , the very worst of reputations . The popular idea of the Temple conjures up dark , dismal , damp , tumble down tenements , par- taking of the baneful characteristics of the class who ...
... give the Inns of Court , in their physical capacity , the very worst of reputations . The popular idea of the Temple conjures up dark , dismal , damp , tumble down tenements , par- taking of the baneful characteristics of the class who ...
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... his own room , when so inclined , he had , after all , but little difficulty in pursuing his bent . And , to give an opinion , I do not think that my hero was much injured by being occasionally forced to desist 26 FIVE YEARS OF IT .
... his own room , when so inclined , he had , after all , but little difficulty in pursuing his bent . And , to give an opinion , I do not think that my hero was much injured by being occasionally forced to desist 26 FIVE YEARS OF IT .
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... give his pupils such boisterous work ; which Trantham afterwards relates to his pupils as a most excellent joke - in which light it is considered by everybody . During a slight truce of silence , the Times is perused all round ; but it ...
... give his pupils such boisterous work ; which Trantham afterwards relates to his pupils as a most excellent joke - in which light it is considered by everybody . During a slight truce of silence , the Times is perused all round ; but it ...
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Page 57 - SHUT, shut the door, good John! fatigued, I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. What walls can guard me, or what shades can hide? They pierce my thickets, through my grot they glide, By land...
Page 190 - And shadows forth its glory. There is given Unto the things of earth, which Time hath bent, A Spirit's feeling, and where he hath leant His hand, but broke his scythe, there is a power And magic in the ruined battlement, For which the Palace of the present hour Must yield its pomp, and wait till Ages are its dower.
Page 132 - thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.