The Reliques of Father ProutGeorge Bell & Sons, 1875 - 578 pages |
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Page iv
... soul is multilateral , his talk multifarious , yet free , it is hoped , from garrulity , and decidedly exempt from credulity . He seems to have had a shrewd eye for scanning Humbug , and it is well for him ( and for others ) that he has ...
... soul is multilateral , his talk multifarious , yet free , it is hoped , from garrulity , and decidedly exempt from credulity . He seems to have had a shrewd eye for scanning Humbug , and it is well for him ( and for others ) that he has ...
Page xi
... Souls ' - day , " had drawn concourse of melancholy people to Père la Chaise , ourselves with the rest ; when our eye was arrested , in a walk of that romantic necropolis , by the faint glimmering of a delicious little lamp , a glow ...
... Souls ' - day , " had drawn concourse of melancholy people to Père la Chaise , ourselves with the rest ; when our eye was arrested , in a walk of that romantic necropolis , by the faint glimmering of a delicious little lamp , a glow ...
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... soul is in heaven . During my short stay at Watergrasshill , ( a wild and ro- mantic district , of which every brake ... souls on that wild mountain . Of his genealogy nothing was ever known with certainty ; but in this he resembled ...
... soul is in heaven . During my short stay at Watergrasshill , ( a wild and ro- mantic district , of which every brake ... souls on that wild mountain . Of his genealogy nothing was ever known with certainty ; but in this he resembled ...
Page 28
... soul , above earth's homage , meek yet solemn , Sits mid the blest . Much was he prized , much loved ; his stern rebuke O'erawed sheep - stealers ; And rogues fear'd more the good man's single look Than forty Peelers . He's gone ; and ...
... soul , above earth's homage , meek yet solemn , Sits mid the blest . Much was he prized , much loved ; his stern rebuke O'erawed sheep - stealers ; And rogues fear'd more the good man's single look Than forty Peelers . He's gone ; and ...
Page 45
... souls without refinement , whose perceptions are of that stunted nature that they can see nothing in the " pass of Thermo- pylæ " but a gap for cattle ; in the " Forum " but a cow- yard ; and for whom St. Helena itself is but a barren ...
... souls without refinement , whose perceptions are of that stunted nature that they can see nothing in the " pass of Thermo- pylæ " but a gap for cattle ; in the " Forum " but a cow- yard ; and for whom St. Helena itself is but a barren ...
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