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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ... - Page 121
edited by - 1887 - 536 pages
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The literary reader: prose authors, with biogr. notices &c. by H.G. Robinson

Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...thoughts, by those transporting airs which he played, to taste the pleasures of his conversation, as I looked upon him like one astonished, he beckoned...Genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions...
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Studies in English prose: specimens, with notes, by J. Payne

Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...thoughts' by those transporting airs which he played, to taste the pleasures of his conversation, as I looked upon him like one astonished, he beckoned...genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability, that familiarised him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions...
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The literary class book; or, Readings in English literature

Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1868 - 526 pages
...waving of his hand directed me to approach the place where he sat. I drew near with that reverence wbich is due to a superior nature ; and, as my heart was...genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability, that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions...
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Readings from the Best Authors

Archibald Hamilton Bryce - English literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...thoughts, by those transporting airs which he played, to taste the pleasures of his conversation, as I looked upon him like one astonished, he beckoned...Genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1870 - 688 pages
...thoughts by those transporting airs which he played, to taste the pleasures of his conversation, as I looked upon him like one astonished, he beckoned...down at his feet and wept. The genius smiled upon a This musical apparatus was intended, not only to raise the thoughts of Mirzab, as i& observed, to...
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Murby's Excelsior readers, ed. by F. Young

Francis Young (F.R.G.S.) - 1870 - 262 pages
...thoughts by those transporting airs which he played, to taste the pleasures of his conversation, as I looked upon him like one astonished, he beckoned...place where he sat. I drew near with that reverence that is due to a superior nature ; and as my heart was entirely subdued by the captivating strains...
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A Hand-book of English Literature Intended for the Use of High Schools, as ...

Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...thoughts by those transporting airs which he played, to taste the pleasures of his conversation, as I looked upon him like one astonished, he beckoned...genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the ilars and apprehensions...
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The Catholicity of the Anglican Church. The Protestant idea of Antichrist ...

John Henry Newman - Anglican Communion - 1871 - 476 pages
...wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place. I drew near with that reverence which is due to a...strains I had heard, I fell down at his feet and wept." Such was the gift of the author of the Christian Year, and he used it in attaching the minds of the...
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John Heywood's new code readers. Standard 1-3, 5, 6, Book 5

John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 pages
...thoughts, by those transporting airs which he played, to taste the pleasures of his conversation, as I looked upon him like one astonished, he beckoned...genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarised him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...thoughts by those transporting airs which he played, to taste the pleasures of his conversation, as I looked upon him like one astonished, he beckoned...genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarised him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions...
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