Beauties: Selected from the Writings of Thomas De QuinceyHurd, 1877 - 432 sider |
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... Spain , and Holland , the whole trophies of the war , swinging pompously , and expanding their massy draperies , slowly and heavily , in the upper gloom , as they were swept at intervals by currents of air . At this moment we were ...
... Spain , and Holland , the whole trophies of the war , swinging pompously , and expanding their massy draperies , slowly and heavily , in the upper gloom , as they were swept at intervals by currents of air . At this moment we were ...
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... Spain , some of them ecclesiastical , the amplest proofs have been drawn , and may yet be greatly ex- tended , of the extraordinary events here recorded . M. de Ferrer , a Spaniard of much research , and originally incredulous as to the ...
... Spain , some of them ecclesiastical , the amplest proofs have been drawn , and may yet be greatly ex- tended , of the extraordinary events here recorded . M. de Ferrer , a Spaniard of much research , and originally incredulous as to the ...
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... Spain . He did , therefore , what in such cases every proud and lazy Spanish gentleman was apt to do- he wrapped the new little daughter , odious to his paternal eyes , in a pocket handkerchief ; and then , wrapping up his own throat ...
... Spain . He did , therefore , what in such cases every proud and lazy Spanish gentleman was apt to do- he wrapped the new little daughter , odious to his paternal eyes , in a pocket handkerchief ; and then , wrapping up his own throat ...
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... Spain . But her sen- sibilities were obtuse as regarded some modes of deli- cacy , some modes of equity , some modes of the world's opinion , and all modes whatever of personal hardship . Lay a stress on that word some ; for , as to ...
... Spain . But her sen- sibilities were obtuse as regarded some modes of deli- cacy , some modes of equity , some modes of the world's opinion , and all modes whatever of personal hardship . Lay a stress on that word some ; for , as to ...
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... Spain . With her armed finger ( ay ; by the way , I forgot the thimble ; but Kate did not ) she set to work upon her amply - embroidered petticoat . She turned it wrong side out ; and , with the magic that only female hands possess ...
... Spain . With her armed finger ( ay ; by the way , I forgot the thimble ; but Kate did not ) she set to work upon her amply - embroidered petticoat . She turned it wrong side out ; and , with the magic that only female hands possess ...
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