Border EssaysW. Blackwood, 1896 - 246 páginas |
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... memory remained with him , until nineteen years after- wards he reproduced the character , idealised after his peculiar fashion . This is Elshender the Recluse , as he appears in the novel of ' The Black Dwarf ' ( 1816 ) . It may be of ...
... memory remained with him , until nineteen years after- wards he reproduced the character , idealised after his peculiar fashion . This is Elshender the Recluse , as he appears in the novel of ' The Black Dwarf ' ( 1816 ) . It may be of ...
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... I daresay , was rather repelled by him , and not sympathetic . There is still another link in my memory with Bowed Davie . Well do I remember an elderly woman , a spinster , who in her youth had 12 THE VALE OF THE MANOR.
... I daresay , was rather repelled by him , and not sympathetic . There is still another link in my memory with Bowed Davie . Well do I remember an elderly woman , a spinster , who in her youth had 12 THE VALE OF THE MANOR.
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... memory , the third may have been taken from life . It is the rudest and certainly the most repellent . These agree essentially in feature . In all he wears a cowl or night - cap , and carries a long pole - kent , or sort of alpen- stock ...
... memory , the third may have been taken from life . It is the rudest and certainly the most repellent . These agree essentially in feature . In all he wears a cowl or night - cap , and carries a long pole - kent , or sort of alpen- stock ...
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... memory such as none of his con- temporaries in the district will ever possess . And if he was physically peculiar , he was as eccentric in habits , tastes , and temper , -misan- thropical , jealous , irritable , and revengeful , yet ...
... memory such as none of his con- temporaries in the district will ever possess . And if he was physically peculiar , he was as eccentric in habits , tastes , and temper , -misan- thropical , jealous , irritable , and revengeful , yet ...
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... memory . There is hardly a trait in the character of the Black Dwarf of the novel which had not its counter- part in the original - always excepting , of course , the concealed quality of the Recluse as a person- age of birth and ...
... memory . There is hardly a trait in the character of the Black Dwarf of the novel which had not its counter- part in the original - always excepting , of course , the concealed quality of the Recluse as a person- age of birth and ...
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