The Reliques of Father ProutG. Bell, 1889 - 580 pages |
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... heart and aching head , I devoted year after year , and was about to become a tolerable proficient in the black letter , when an epistle from Ireland reached me in Furnival's Inn , and altered my prospects materially . This despatch was ...
... heart and aching head , I devoted year after year , and was about to become a tolerable proficient in the black letter , when an epistle from Ireland reached me in Furnival's Inn , and altered my prospects materially . This despatch was ...
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... heart ; or elaborate mystification of a grosser grain , such as may do for the House of Commons ; all summed up and charac terised by the mysterious term Blarney . * Prout's theory on this subject might have remained dor- * To Crofton ...
... heart ; or elaborate mystification of a grosser grain , such as may do for the House of Commons ; all summed up and charac terised by the mysterious term Blarney . * Prout's theory on this subject might have remained dor- * To Crofton ...
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... heart in its fervent youthhood ; and nothing but the cold scepticism of an age which Edmund Burke so truly designated as that of calculators and economists , could scoff at the enthusiasm that feeds on ruins such as these , that visits ...
... heart in its fervent youthhood ; and nothing but the cold scepticism of an age which Edmund Burke so truly designated as that of calculators and economists , could scoff at the enthusiasm that feeds on ruins such as these , that visits ...
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... heart - broken at the loss of his friend , that he did nothing but droop , and soon died of what the doctor said was a decline ; ) - Jack was the very image of his own Chronicle , " and , vice versa , the " Chronicle " was the faithful ...
... heart - broken at the loss of his friend , that he did nothing but droop , and soon died of what the doctor said was a decline ; ) - Jack was the very image of his own Chronicle , " and , vice versa , the " Chronicle " was the faithful ...
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... heart ! ) All the statues made of lead , and the pictures , O ! You're the man I mean , hight Sir Thomas Deane , knight , Whom the people have no reason to thank at all ; But for you those things so old Sure would never have been sold ...
... heart ! ) All the statues made of lead , and the pictures , O ! You're the man I mean , hight Sir Thomas Deane , knight , Whom the people have no reason to thank at all ; But for you those things so old Sure would never have been sold ...
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