The British Essayists: The AdventurerLittle, Brown, 1866 |
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... short and natural nar- ration . The officers of his attendant spirit , Ariel , are enu- merated with amazing wildness of fancy , and yet with equal propriety ; his employment is said to be , -To tread the ooze Of the salt deep ; To run ...
... short and natural nar- ration . The officers of his attendant spirit , Ariel , are enu- merated with amazing wildness of fancy , and yet with equal propriety ; his employment is said to be , -To tread the ooze Of the salt deep ; To run ...
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... short strictures , and unconnected essays . To excel in any of these forms of writing , will require a particular cultivation of the genius ; who- ever can attain to excellence , will be certain to en- gage a set of readers , whom no ...
... short strictures , and unconnected essays . To excel in any of these forms of writing , will require a particular cultivation of the genius ; who- ever can attain to excellence , will be certain to en- gage a set of readers , whom no ...
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... short but compre- hensive observation on human life , not excelled by any passage of the moral and sententious Euripides : -We are such stuff As dreams are made of , and our little life Is rounded with a sleep ! - Thus admirably is an ...
... short but compre- hensive observation on human life , not excelled by any passage of the moral and sententious Euripides : -We are such stuff As dreams are made of , and our little life Is rounded with a sleep ! - Thus admirably is an ...
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... short , one of those heroic Adventurers , who have thought proper to distinguish themselves by the titles of Buck , Blood , and Nerve . When I am in the country , I am always on horseback , and I leap or break every hedge and gate that ...
... short , one of those heroic Adventurers , who have thought proper to distinguish themselves by the titles of Buck , Blood , and Nerve . When I am in the country , I am always on horseback , and I leap or break every hedge and gate that ...
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... short account of my life , re- marking the periods when my character changed its denomination , and the particular incidents by which the change was produced . $ 6 My father was a wealthy farmer in Yorkshire ; and when I was near ...
... short account of my life , re- marking the periods when my character changed its denomination , and the particular incidents by which the change was produced . $ 6 My father was a wealthy farmer in Yorkshire ; and when I was near ...
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Common terms and phrases
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