Ruskin: Sesame and lilies. Unto this last. The Queen of the air. The storm cloud of the nineteenth centuryDana Estes & Company, 1856 |
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... Perhaps you may be proud . Well , we can get much good out of pride , if only it be not religious . Perhaps you may be vain : it is highly probable ; and very pleasant for the people who like to praise you . Perhaps you are a little en ...
... Perhaps you may be proud . Well , we can get much good out of pride , if only it be not religious . Perhaps you may be vain : it is highly probable ; and very pleasant for the people who like to praise you . Perhaps you are a little en ...
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... perhaps never listen to a word they would say , all day long ! You may tell me , perhaps , or think within yourselves , that the apathy with which we regard this company of the noble , who are praying us to listen to them , and the ...
... perhaps never listen to a word they would say , all day long ! You may tell me , perhaps , or think within yourselves , that the apathy with which we regard this company of the noble , who are praying us to listen to them , and the ...
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... perhaps in warning , perhaps in mockery , to declare , that life itself is a vanity . Because it has disappointed them , they think its nature is of disappointment always , or at best , of pleasure that can be grasped by imagination ...
... perhaps in warning , perhaps in mockery , to declare , that life itself is a vanity . Because it has disappointed them , they think its nature is of disappointment always , or at best , of pleasure that can be grasped by imagination ...
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