The Reliques of Father ProutGeorge Bell & Sons, 1875 - 578 pages |
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... hour , and vented their impotent ire through their " safety valve , " the press , have resumed their customary calm . The dramatic " murder of Jephtha " is forgotten . In truth , after all , there was something due to local re ...
... hour , and vented their impotent ire through their " safety valve , " the press , have resumed their customary calm . The dramatic " murder of Jephtha " is forgotten . In truth , after all , there was something due to local re ...
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... hour to Father Prout , and to my kind and simple - hearted aunt , whose grave is in Rathcooney , and whose soul is in heaven . During my short stay at Watergrasshill , ( a wild and ro- mantic district , of which every brake and fell ...
... hour to Father Prout , and to my kind and simple - hearted aunt , whose grave is in Rathcooney , and whose soul is in heaven . During my short stay at Watergrasshill , ( a wild and ro- mantic district , of which every brake and fell ...
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... hour is come to be stared at as a disciple of Pythagoras , or scrutinised as a follower of the Venetian Cornaro . I am " a lion " at " feed- ing - time . " To tempt me from my allegiance by the proffer of a turkey's wing , to eulogise ...
... hour is come to be stared at as a disciple of Pythagoras , or scrutinised as a follower of the Venetian Cornaro . I am " a lion " at " feed- ing - time . " To tempt me from my allegiance by the proffer of a turkey's wing , to eulogise ...
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... hour in its full sunshine under the gallant Masaniello . " As to the commercial grandeur , of which a constant demand for fish was the creating principle , to illustrate its importance , I need only refer to a remarkable expression of ...
... hour in its full sunshine under the gallant Masaniello . " As to the commercial grandeur , of which a constant demand for fish was the creating principle , to illustrate its importance , I need only refer to a remarkable expression of ...
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... England are immense . To Lent you owe the connexion of the two islands ; it is the golden link that binds the two kingdoms together . Abolish fasting , and from that evil hour no beef or pork would 24 FATHER PROUT'S RELIQUES .
... England are immense . To Lent you owe the connexion of the two islands ; it is the golden link that binds the two kingdoms together . Abolish fasting , and from that evil hour no beef or pork would 24 FATHER PROUT'S RELIQUES .
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