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The novels of Tobias Smollett. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the life of ... - Page 41
by Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821
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A Book for a Corner, Or Selections in Prose and Verse from Authors the Best ...

Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 460 pages
...the midst of a forest, far from the habitations of men. The darkness of the night, the silence and solitude of the place, the indistinct images of the...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
...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 athwart tho gloom, conspired with the dejection of spirits occasioned by his loss to disturb his fancy, and...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...the midst of a forest, far from the habitations of men. The darkness of the night, the silence and solitude of the place, the indistinct images of the...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
...the midst of a forest, far from the habitations of men. The darkness of the night, the silence and solitude of the place, the indistinct images of the...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
...the midst of a forest, far from the habitations of men. The darkness of the night, the silence and solitude of the place, the indistinct images of the...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
...the midst of a forest, far from the habitations of men. The darkness of the night, the silence and solitude of the place, the indistinct images of the...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
...the midst of a forest, far from the habitations of men. The darkness of the night, the silence and solitude of the place, the indistinct images of the...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
...the midst of a forest, far from the habitations of men. The darkness of the night, the silence and solitude of the place, the indistinct images of the...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 Gothic romance

Hans Reinhard Möbius - 1902 - 152 pages
...in the midst of a forest far from the habitations of men; the darkness of the night, the silence and solitude of the place, the indistinct images of the...superstitious, his mind began to be invaded with an aweful horror Every whisper of the wind through the thickets, was swelled into the hoarse menaces of...
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The Works of Tobias Smollett: The adventures of Count Fathom

Tobias Smollett - 1902 - 364 pages
...the midst of a forest, far from the habitations of men. The darkness of the night, the silence and solitude of the place, the indistinct images of the...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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