The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent: No. I[-VII].C.S. Van Winkle, 101 Greenwich Street, 1820 |
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... little thick quarto , curi- ously bound in parchment , with brass clasps , and seated myself at the table in a venerable . elbow chair . Instead of reading , however , I was beguiled by the solemn monastic air and lifeless quiet of the ...
... little thick quarto , curi- ously bound in parchment , with brass clasps , and seated myself at the table in a venerable . elbow chair . Instead of reading , however , I was beguiled by the solemn monastic air and lifeless quiet of the ...
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... quarto , until I accidentally loosened the clasps , when , to my utter astonish- ment , the little book gave two or three yawns , like one awaking from a deep sleep ; then a husky hem , and at length began to talk . At first its voice ...
... quarto , until I accidentally loosened the clasps , when , to my utter astonish- ment , the little book gave two or three yawns , like one awaking from a deep sleep ; then a husky hem , and at length began to talk . At first its voice ...
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... little tome . Its language , to be sure , was rather quaint and obsolete , and its pronunciation , what , in the ... little quarto , which I began to perceive was somewhat choleric , " what a plague do they mean by keeping several ...
... little tome . Its language , to be sure , was rather quaint and obsolete , and its pronunciation , what , in the ... little quarto , which I began to perceive was somewhat choleric , " what a plague do they mean by keeping several ...
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... little quarto , with a heavy sigh , " I see how it is ; these modern scribblers have superseded all the good old authors . I suppose nothing is read now - a - days but Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia , Sackville's stately plays , and Mirror ...
... little quarto , with a heavy sigh , " I see how it is ; these modern scribblers have superseded all the good old authors . I suppose nothing is read now - a - days but Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia , Sackville's stately plays , and Mirror ...
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... little better than a mere walking cata- logue . " " My very good sir , " said the little quarto , yawning most drearily in my face , " excuse my interrupting you , but I perceive you are rather given to prose . I would ask the fate of ...
... little better than a mere walking cata- logue . " " My very good sir , " said the little quarto , yawning most drearily in my face , " excuse my interrupting you , but I perceive you are rather given to prose . I would ask the fate of ...
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