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Select Works of Tobias Smollett ...: With a Memoir of the Life and Writings ... - Page 407
by Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835
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A Book for a Corner, Or Selections in Prose and Verse from Authors the Best ...

Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 460 pages
...auspices of his conductor, and found himself benighted in the midst of a forest, far from the habitations of men. The darkness of the night, the silence and...appeared on every side stretching their extravagant arras athwart the gloom, conspired with the dejection of spirits occasioned by his loss to disturb...
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A Book for a Corner: Or, Selections in Prose and Verse from ..., Volume 1

1852 - 460 pages
...auspices of his conductor, and found himself benighted in the midst of a forest, far from the habitations of men. The darkness of the night, the silence and solitude of the pkce, the indistinct images of the trees that appeared on every side stretching their extravagant arms...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...auspices of his conductor, and found himself benighted in the midst of a forest, far from the habitations of men. The darkness of the night, the silence and...extravagant arms athwart the gloom," conspired, with the dejectiou of spirits occasioned by hia loss, to disturb hia fancy, and raise strange phantoms in his...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1856 - 456 pages
...auspices of his con ductor, and found himself benighted in the midst of a forest, far from the habitations of men. The darkness of the night, the silence and...appeared on every side, " stretching their extravagant athwart the gloom," conspired, with the dejection of spirits occasioned by his loss, to disturb his...
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The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Treatise on Elocution, Exercises in ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...auspices of his conductor, and found himself benighted in the midst of a forest, far from the habitations of men. The darkness of the night, the silence and...their extravagant arms athwart the gloom, conspired wifli the dejection of spirits occasioned by his loss to disturb his fancy, and raise strange phantoms...
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Episodes of Fiction, Or, Choice Stories from the Great Novelists, with ...

1869 - 330 pages
...that same aftetnoon, and found himself benighted in the midst of a forest, far from the habitations of men. The darkness of the night, the silence and...their extravagant arms athwart the gloom," conspired to disturb his fancy, and raise strange phantoms in his imagination. Although he was not naturally...
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Episodes of Fiction

1870 - 322 pages
...that same afternoon, and found himself benighted in the midst of a forest, far from the habitations of men. The darkness of the night, the silence and...their extravagant arms athwart the gloom," conspired to disturb his fancy, and raise strange phantoms in his imagination. Although he was not naturally...
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The Treasury of Literature and Art: a Selection from the Best Writers

Treasury - 1872 - 166 pages
...that same afternoon, and found himself benighted in the midst of a forest, far from the habitations of men. The darkness of the night, the silence and...their extravagant arms athwart the gloom," conspired to disturb his fancy, and raise strange phantoms in his imagination. Although he was not naturally...
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The Works of Tobias Smollett: The adventures of Count Fathom

Tobias Smollett - 1902 - 364 pages
...auspices of his conductor, and found himself benighted in the midst of a forest, far from the habitations of men. The darkness of the night, the silence and...side, "stretching their extravagant arms athwart the gloom,11 conspired, with the dejection of spirits occasioned by his loss, to disturb his fancy, and...
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Werwolves

Elliott O'Donnell - 1912 - 346 pages
...could carry him to his tryst. The shadows of night were already on the forest when he entered it ; and the silence and solitude of the place, the indistinct images of the trees, and their dismal sighing, that seemed to foretell a storm, all combined to disturb his fancy and raise...
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