To the homes of good men and greatW. H. Wise, 1916 |
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... seen and known and felt before from " Mill on the Floss . " I found the house where they say the novelist was born . A plain , whitewashed , stone structure , built two hun- dred years ago ; two stories , the upper chambers low , with ...
... seen and known and felt before from " Mill on the Floss . " I found the house where they say the novelist was born . A plain , whitewashed , stone structure , built two hun- dred years ago ; two stories , the upper chambers low , with ...
Page 145
... seen how Swift's father sickened and died . The world was too severe for him , its buffets too abrupt , its burden too heavy , and he gave up the fight before the battle had really begun . This lack of courage and extreme sensitiveness ...
... seen how Swift's father sickened and died . The world was too severe for him , its buffets too abrupt , its burden too heavy , and he gave up the fight before the battle had really begun . This lack of courage and extreme sensitiveness ...
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... seen that , although Napoleon , the defeated , has a more gorgeous tomb than Wellington , who defeated him , yet there is consolation in the thought that although England has no monument to Shake- speare he now has the freedom of ...
... seen that , although Napoleon , the defeated , has a more gorgeous tomb than Wellington , who defeated him , yet there is consolation in the thought that although England has no monument to Shake- speare he now has the freedom of ...
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