Essays of Elia and Eliana... with a Memoir by Barry Cornwall, Volume 2Bell, 1892 |
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... nights hast detained my steps from bedward , till it was but a step from gazing at thee to dreaming on thee . This is the only true gentry by adoption ; the veritable change of blood , and not as empirics have fabled , by transfusion ...
... nights hast detained my steps from bedward , till it was but a step from gazing at thee to dreaming on thee . This is the only true gentry by adoption ; the veritable change of blood , and not as empirics have fabled , by transfusion ...
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... night - having ordered your supper - what can be more delightful than to find lying in the window - seat , left there time out of mind by the carelessness of some former guest— two or three numbers of the old Town and Country 22 LAST ...
... night - having ordered your supper - what can be more delightful than to find lying in the window - seat , left there time out of mind by the carelessness of some former guest— two or three numbers of the old Town and Country 22 LAST ...
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... nights before , and I was determined the culprits should not a second time put me out of countenance . ] There is a class of street readers , whom I can never contemplate without affection -- the poor gen- try , who , not having ...
... nights before , and I was determined the culprits should not a second time put me out of countenance . ] There is a class of street readers , whom I can never contemplate without affection -- the poor gen- try , who , not having ...
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... night , the poorest hovel which he honours by his sleeping in it , becomes ipso facto for that time a palace ; so wherever Elliston walked , sate , or stood still , there was the theatre . carried about with him his pit , boxes , and ...
... night , the poorest hovel which he honours by his sleeping in it , becomes ipso facto for that time a palace ; so wherever Elliston walked , sate , or stood still , there was the theatre . carried about with him his pit , boxes , and ...
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... nights , to which these vessels then were oftentimes obliged to prolong their voyage . Upon a nearer acquaintance with him , which he seemed neither to court nor decline , we learned that he was going to Margate , with the hope of being ...
... nights , to which these vessels then were oftentimes obliged to prolong their voyage . Upon a nearer acquaintance with him , which he seemed neither to court nor decline , we learned that he was going to Margate , with the hope of being ...
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