Autobiographic Sketches, Bind 11–12Houghton, Mifflin, 1876 - 593 sider |
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... for it is a stormy winter night ; and the trousers , —some one suggests that they are inner linen garments blackened with writing ink , but that Papaverius never ― would have been at the trouble so to dis- 2 INTRODUCTION .
... for it is a stormy winter night ; and the trousers , —some one suggests that they are inner linen garments blackened with writing ink , but that Papaverius never ― would have been at the trouble so to dis- 2 INTRODUCTION .
Side 4
... never rising into declamation -never losing a certain mellow earnest- ness , and all consisting of sentences as ex- quisitely joined together , as if they were destined to challenge the criticism of the remotest posterity . Still the ...
... never rising into declamation -never losing a certain mellow earnest- ness , and all consisting of sentences as ex- quisitely joined together , as if they were destined to challenge the criticism of the remotest posterity . Still the ...
Side 11
... never did the austerities of monk or anchorite so entirely cast all these away as his peculiar nature removed them from him . It may be questioned if he ever knew what it was to eat a good dinner , ' or could even comprehend the nature ...
... never did the austerities of monk or anchorite so entirely cast all these away as his peculiar nature removed them from him . It may be questioned if he ever knew what it was to eat a good dinner , ' or could even comprehend the nature ...
Side 13
... never heard the like o ' that in a ' my days ; the bodie has an awfu ' sicht o ' words . If it had been my ain maister that was wanting his dinner , he would ha ' ordered a hale tablefu ' wi ' little mair than a waff o ' his haun , and ...
... never heard the like o ' that in a ' my days ; the bodie has an awfu ' sicht o ' words . If it had been my ain maister that was wanting his dinner , he would ha ' ordered a hale tablefu ' wi ' little mair than a waff o ' his haun , and ...
Side 17
... never been conducted upon that system , which the Oxford examinations , es- sentially and very properly intended for men of average abilities , render almost in- cumbent upon every candidate for the high- est honors . De Quincey seems ...
... never been conducted upon that system , which the Oxford examinations , es- sentially and very properly intended for men of average abilities , render almost in- cumbent upon every candidate for the high- est honors . De Quincey seems ...
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