The Reliques of Father ProutG. Bell, 1889 - 580 pages |
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Page 100
... beautiful fort ; We'll never forgive him , though some will- Saxons ! such as George Knapp and his sort . But they tell us the day ' ll come , when Dannel Will purge the whole country , and drive All the Sassenachs into the channel ...
... beautiful fort ; We'll never forgive him , though some will- Saxons ! such as George Knapp and his sort . But they tell us the day ' ll come , when Dannel Will purge the whole country , and drive All the Sassenachs into the channel ...
Page 116
... beautiful poem may have been excusable for adopt- ing so unscientific a theory ; but beyond the sphere of rustic sages the hypothesis is intolerable : " And still they gazed , and still their wonder grew , That one small head could ...
... beautiful poem may have been excusable for adopt- ing so unscientific a theory ; but beyond the sphere of rustic sages the hypothesis is intolerable : " And still they gazed , and still their wonder grew , That one small head could ...
Page 117
... beautiful and regular canal , the soft hand of woman could , with a single riband , draw him onward in a fair and well - ordered channel ; but to drag him out of his course into any devious path , it was not in nature nor the most ...
... beautiful and regular canal , the soft hand of woman could , with a single riband , draw him onward in a fair and well - ordered channel ; but to drag him out of his course into any devious path , it was not in nature nor the most ...
Page 120
... beautiful simile of the Melodist ) , still we cannot , with the slightest semblance of probability , trace the outbreak of his madness to any sympathies of severed friendship . If Swift ever nourished a predominant affection — if he was ...
... beautiful simile of the Melodist ) , still we cannot , with the slightest semblance of probability , trace the outbreak of his madness to any sympathies of severed friendship . If Swift ever nourished a predominant affection — if he was ...
Page 125
... beautiful in their simplicity 66 PROUT STELLA REFULGES ! " So that , when I was taken into the " Cork Foundling Hospital , " 1 was at once christened " Prout , " from the adverb that begins the sentence , and which , being the shortest ...
... beautiful in their simplicity 66 PROUT STELLA REFULGES ! " So that , when I was taken into the " Cork Foundling Hospital , " 1 was at once christened " Prout , " from the adverb that begins the sentence , and which , being the shortest ...
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