The Canon's Ward, Volume 1Chatto and Windus, 1884 |
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... thoughts are grave , though they are gladdened by its beauty . The grass is as green as when he trod it thirty years ago , and the fragrance of the lime - walk has lost none of its sweetness , yet how much is gone that was there before ...
... thoughts are grave , though they are gladdened by its beauty . The grass is as green as when he trod it thirty years ago , and the fragrance of the lime - walk has lost none of its sweetness , yet how much is gone that was there before ...
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... thoughts never come into my head , because , I suppose , I have other things to do . The hand of least employment has the daintier sense . A thou- sand pardons - I forgot the Concordance . ' ' I was thinking of my boy , ' said the Canon ...
... thoughts never come into my head , because , I suppose , I have other things to do . The hand of least employment has the daintier sense . A thou- sand pardons - I forgot the Concordance . ' ' I was thinking of my boy , ' said the Canon ...
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... thought it a matter not only of vast importance , but of pressing necessity . It did not strike him that for what people had done without for a few centuries , such as a concordance to Milton , they could very well wait a little longer ...
... thought it a matter not only of vast importance , but of pressing necessity . It did not strike him that for what people had done without for a few centuries , such as a concordance to Milton , they could very well wait a little longer ...
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... thoughts a hundred miles . away ; indeed much further , for they were with his boy in India . He had everything about him suitable to intellectual activity ; every description of note- book , piles of volumes of reference ; a desk with ...
... thoughts a hundred miles . away ; indeed much further , for they were with his boy in India . He had everything about him suitable to intellectual activity ; every description of note- book , piles of volumes of reference ; a desk with ...
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... thought a ball - room was the very last place you would have been found in . However , I am glad to find you are not such a stranger as I thought you were . It is hardly necessary to say you will not forget your engagement for to ...
... thought a ball - room was the very last place you would have been found in . However , I am glad to find you are not such a stranger as I thought you were . It is hardly necessary to say you will not forget your engagement for to ...
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