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... leaving her to find her way thither , Aubrey de Vere and I came home . I do not know that a generous affection has ever wrought a more wonderful work than it did on our travels in converting Aubrey de Vere into a practical man . The ...
... leaving her to find her way thither , Aubrey de Vere and I came home . I do not know that a generous affection has ever wrought a more wonderful work than it did on our travels in converting Aubrey de Vere into a practical man . The ...
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... leaves a man the readier prey to melancholy , and I doubt whether business does not expel more cares than it brings ... leaving him no better off at the hours which are his own than an Esquimaux or a bat , I remain , & c . ' 23 CHAPTER ...
... leaves a man the readier prey to melancholy , and I doubt whether business does not expel more cares than it brings ... leaving him no better off at the hours which are his own than an Esquimaux or a bat , I remain , & c . ' 23 CHAPTER ...
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... leave to read the draft of a report which he had to propose . It was rather a long paper , giving an account of the consti- tution of British Guiana as it had existed under the Sovereignty of the States - General of Holland and of the ...
... leave to read the draft of a report which he had to propose . It was rather a long paper , giving an account of the consti- tution of British Guiana as it had existed under the Sovereignty of the States - General of Holland and of the ...
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... leaving the stage . ' ( 6 The play did not make much way with the world at first , and , sharing the fortunes of ' Isaac Comnenus , ' Edwin the Fair , ' and ' St. Clement's Eve , ' its cir- culation from first to last has been little ...
... leaving the stage . ' ( 6 The play did not make much way with the world at first , and , sharing the fortunes of ' Isaac Comnenus , ' Edwin the Fair , ' and ' St. Clement's Eve , ' its cir- culation from first to last has been little ...
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... leaving my wife and children I took up my abode alone for a time in a large house in South Street , belonging to my wife's brother - in - law , but not occupied by him at the moment . The house is as full and noisy as an inn ; eleven ...
... leaving my wife and children I took up my abode alone for a time in a large house in South Street , belonging to my wife's brother - in - law , but not occupied by him at the moment . The house is as full and noisy as an inn ; eleven ...
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Page 274 - O, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's: thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm.
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Page 39 - HARRY, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent, not to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long, Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng, With praise enough for Envy to look wan : To after age thou shalt be writ the man That with smooth air couldst humour best our tongue. Thou honour'st verse, and verse must lend her wing To honour thee, the priest of Phoebus...
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