The Eton miscellany, by Bartholomew Bouverie1827 |
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... senses than one . But in my present undertaking , there is one gulph in which I fear to sink ; and that gulph is Lethe . There is one stream which I dread my inability to stem - it is the tide of Popular Opinion . I have ventured , and ...
... senses than one . But in my present undertaking , there is one gulph in which I fear to sink ; and that gulph is Lethe . There is one stream which I dread my inability to stem - it is the tide of Popular Opinion . I have ventured , and ...
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... sense ! I , Bartholomew Bouverie , tell you , it was the mighty strife between the Trisyllables and the Quadrisyllables , that wound up to so fearful a pitch the attention of the world ! To come to more modern times reflect on the ...
... sense ! I , Bartholomew Bouverie , tell you , it was the mighty strife between the Trisyllables and the Quadrisyllables , that wound up to so fearful a pitch the attention of the world ! To come to more modern times reflect on the ...
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... senses can ever compare Το your health , Sir , to - day , what you yesterday were : ' Tis the draughts that have done it ; I know them of old , They're the true panacea , the essence of gold . " Just then at the door came a thundering ...
... senses can ever compare Το your health , Sir , to - day , what you yesterday were : ' Tis the draughts that have done it ; I know them of old , They're the true panacea , the essence of gold . " Just then at the door came a thundering ...
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... sense of right would make him voluntarily yield the palm to him in point of humour and invention . But I should not act a candid part if I omitted to state , that with the sincerity , and the physical force , he retains some of the ...
... sense of right would make him voluntarily yield the palm to him in point of humour and invention . But I should not act a candid part if I omitted to state , that with the sincerity , and the physical force , he retains some of the ...
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... senses than one . Most fully am I convinced of his frankness and sin- cerity he would suffer no one whom he disliked , to re- main long in intercourse with him , without an intimation of the feeling on his part ; and he would be the ...
... senses than one . Most fully am I convinced of his frankness and sin- cerity he would suffer no one whom he disliked , to re- main long in intercourse with him , without an intimation of the feeling on his part ; and he would be the ...
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