A Book of English Essays (1600-1900)Stanley Victor Makower, Basil H. Blackwell Oxford University Press, 1952 - 440 pages |
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Page 68
... heard . They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise , to wear out the impressions of their last agonies , and qualify them for the pleasures of that ...
... heard . They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise , to wear out the impressions of their last agonies , and qualify them for the pleasures of that ...
Page 68
... heard . They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise , to wear out the impressions of their last agonies , and qualify them for the pleasures of that ...
... heard . They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise , to wear out the impressions of their last agonies , and qualify them for the pleasures of that ...
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... heard asserted of a dish compounded of five or six savoury ingredients . And as to the former , I remember an elderly gentlewoman who had a great antipathy to the smell of apples , who , upon discovering that an idle boy had fastened ...
... heard asserted of a dish compounded of five or six savoury ingredients . And as to the former , I remember an elderly gentlewoman who had a great antipathy to the smell of apples , who , upon discovering that an idle boy had fastened ...
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SIR THOMAS OVERBURY 15811613 | 9 |
SIR THOMAS BROWNE 16051682 | 16 |
THOMAS FULLER 16081661 | 22 |
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