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Page 191
... night solitudes - when I cannot muster a fiddle . Barry Cornwall has his tritons and his nereids gambolling before him in nocturnal visions , and proclaiming sons born to Neptune - when my stretch of imaginative activity can hardly , in ...
... night solitudes - when I cannot muster a fiddle . Barry Cornwall has his tritons and his nereids gambolling before him in nocturnal visions , and proclaiming sons born to Neptune - when my stretch of imaginative activity can hardly , in ...
Page 231
... night falls , the penalty of the unnatural inversion . Therefore , while the busy part of mankind are fast huddling on their clothes , are already up and about their occupations , content to have swallowed their sleep by wholesale ; we ...
... night falls , the penalty of the unnatural inversion . Therefore , while the busy part of mankind are fast huddling on their clothes , are already up and about their occupations , content to have swallowed their sleep by wholesale ; we ...
Page 412
... nights , I finished my education in a fair amateur experience of houselessness . My principal object being to get through the night , the pursuit of it brought me into sympathetic relations with people who have no other object every night ...
... nights , I finished my education in a fair amateur experience of houselessness . My principal object being to get through the night , the pursuit of it brought me into sympathetic relations with people who have no other object every night ...
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