A Book of English Essays (1600-1900)Stanley Victor Makower, Basil H. Blackwell Oxford University Press, 1952 - 440 pages |
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Page 205
... eyes , but where the understanding is positively allowed to obliterate the eyes , as it were ; for not only does the man believe the evidence of his under- standing in opposition to that of his eyes , but ( what is monstrous ! ) the ...
... eyes , but where the understanding is positively allowed to obliterate the eyes , as it were ; for not only does the man believe the evidence of his under- standing in opposition to that of his eyes , but ( what is monstrous ! ) the ...
Page 216
... eyes ; her head , on which sits a dilapidated turban , droops for ever ; for ever fastens on the dust . She weeps ... eye for ever upon a solitary grave , which to him seems the altar overthrown of some past and bloody sacrifice , on ...
... eyes ; her head , on which sits a dilapidated turban , droops for ever ; for ever fastens on the dust . She weeps ... eye for ever upon a solitary grave , which to him seems the altar overthrown of some past and bloody sacrifice , on ...
Page 264
... eyes , beard , shoulders , just as you have seen them from month to month . Well , he is not like the Philip Firmin in my mind . Asleep , asleep in the grave , lies the bold , the generous , the reckless , the tender - hearted creature ...
... eyes , beard , shoulders , just as you have seen them from month to month . Well , he is not like the Philip Firmin in my mind . Asleep , asleep in the grave , lies the bold , the generous , the reckless , the tender - hearted creature ...
Contents
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY 15811613 | 9 |
SIR THOMAS BROWNE 16051682 | 16 |
THOMAS FULLER 16081661 | 22 |
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