The Reliques of Father ProutGeorge Bell & Sons, 1875 - 578 pages |
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... turning over the charmingly executed hand- coloured plates of British plants which encumber these volumes with riches , the reader cannot help being struck with the beauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tread on with ...
... turning over the charmingly executed hand- coloured plates of British plants which encumber these volumes with riches , the reader cannot help being struck with the beauty of many of the humblest flowering weeds we tread on with ...
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... turning their thoughts into a dif- ferent channel : the busy hum subsides at once ; and learned commentators have found , in the fourth book of Virgil's Georgics , a prophetic allusion to this magic operation : " Hi motus animorum atque ...
... turning their thoughts into a dif- ferent channel : the busy hum subsides at once ; and learned commentators have found , in the fourth book of Virgil's Georgics , a prophetic allusion to this magic operation : " Hi motus animorum atque ...
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... turn out to be a Popish contrivance ; but if so , we have taken the bait ourselves : we have been , like Festus , “ almost persuaded , " and Prout has wrought in us a sort of culinary conversion . Why should we be ashamed to avow that ...
... turn out to be a Popish contrivance ; but if so , we have taken the bait ourselves : we have been , like Festus , “ almost persuaded , " and Prout has wrought in us a sort of culinary conversion . Why should we be ashamed to avow that ...
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... turn , become as well the haunt of the antiquarian as the poet , and the painter , and the Christian pilgrim ; for dull indeed would that man be , duller than the stagnant weed that vegetates on Lethe's shore , who again would put the ...
... turn , become as well the haunt of the antiquarian as the poet , and the painter , and the Christian pilgrim ; for dull indeed would that man be , duller than the stagnant weed that vegetates on Lethe's shore , who again would put the ...
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... turns out to have been only a stage and resting - place in the progress of their western wanderings , bears in its very name the trace of its having had in its possession and cus- tody the Blarney Stone . This city is called in the ...
... turns out to have been only a stage and resting - place in the progress of their western wanderings , bears in its very name the trace of its having had in its possession and cus- tody the Blarney Stone . This city is called in the ...
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