A Book of English Essays (1600-1900)Stanley Victor Makower, Basil H. Blackwell Oxford University Press, 1952 - 440 pages |
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Page 73
... turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating : but instead of the rolling tide , the arched ... turning to her husband , you may now see the stranger that was in the candle last night . ' Soon after this , as they ...
... turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating : but instead of the rolling tide , the arched ... turning to her husband , you may now see the stranger that was in the candle last night . ' Soon after this , as they ...
Page 140
... turned out to be the parents of , an honest couple come to decay - whom this seasonable supply had , in all probability , saved from mendicancy : and that this young stork , at the expense of his own good name , had all this while been ...
... turned out to be the parents of , an honest couple come to decay - whom this seasonable supply had , in all probability , saved from mendicancy : and that this young stork , at the expense of his own good name , had all this while been ...
Page 339
... turned towards the right way . ' Soon as I came on the threshold of my second age , and changed my life , this man took himself from me and gave himself to others . ' When that I had mounted from flesh to spirit , and beauty and spirit ...
... turned towards the right way . ' Soon as I came on the threshold of my second age , and changed my life , this man took himself from me and gave himself to others . ' When that I had mounted from flesh to spirit , and beauty and spirit ...
Contents
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY 15811613 | 9 |
SIR THOMAS BROWNE 16051682 | 16 |
THOMAS FULLER 16081661 | 22 |
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