The Reliques of Father ProutG. Bell, 1889 - 580 pages |
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Francis Mahony. partial to the literature of that merry nation . The pilgrim's wanderings are compared by this gallic satirist to the meandering course of a river in Germany , which , after watering the plains of Protestant Wirtemberg ...
Francis Mahony. partial to the literature of that merry nation . The pilgrim's wanderings are compared by this gallic satirist to the meandering course of a river in Germany , which , after watering the plains of Protestant Wirtemberg ...
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... literature with the egotistic feeling of a churl . He would never listen to the many offers from interested publishers , who sought for the prize with eager competition ; but kept the song in manuscript on detached leaves , despite of ...
... literature with the egotistic feeling of a churl . He would never listen to the many offers from interested publishers , who sought for the prize with eager competition ; but kept the song in manuscript on detached leaves , despite of ...
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... literature were gathered on the banks of that mighty stream so faithfully characterised by Burdigala's native poet Ausonius , in his classic enumeration : " Lentus Arar , Rhodanusque celer , PLENUSque GARUMNA . ” One day , a goatherd ...
... literature were gathered on the banks of that mighty stream so faithfully characterised by Burdigala's native poet Ausonius , in his classic enumeration : " Lentus Arar , Rhodanusque celer , PLENUSque GARUMNA . ” One day , a goatherd ...
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... Literature , " of the elder D'Israeli . In his chapter on the " Medicine of the Mind , " ( vol . i . second series : Murray , 1823 ) , I find a passage which tells for my theory ; and I therefore insert it here , on the principle of je ...
... Literature , " of the elder D'Israeli . In his chapter on the " Medicine of the Mind , " ( vol . i . second series : Murray , 1823 ) , I find a passage which tells for my theory ; and I therefore insert it here , on the principle of je ...
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... literature had made of him a madman ! But surely such a sad con- fusion of materialism and spiritualism as that misconception implies , will not require refutation . The villagers in Gold- smith's beautiful poem may have been excusable ...
... literature had made of him a madman ! But surely such a sad con- fusion of materialism and spiritualism as that misconception implies , will not require refutation . The villagers in Gold- smith's beautiful poem may have been excusable ...
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