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that he had read of it, a something of
 

but to proceed. He answered that he had read of it :   ₁
interpolated a motley Something of his Own   ₂
a something, of some years standing: that   ₃
 
a something of little value to another’s heart, but enough   ₄
which, as he was a sedentary man, was weighty, if not convincing.   ₁
But I must not anticipate.   ₄
 
The world of fiction is still, for the most part,   ₅   a little too poetical,   ₆
a Something of the same kind has been said,
a nursery and bread-and-butter world,
 
Terrible dangers no doubt   ₅   some matter of bygone superstition;
The idea of “Snowflakes melting in the autumn breeze”
A something of the same   ₆
 
a something of shame, we
behold mere play upon the surface of things   ₇
A something of both :   ₁   Wait a little longer   ₆
 

sources

  1. “Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations” [sic title, in google books result, but] Imaginary Conversations, in The Works of Walter Savage Landor. Vol. 1 (of two). (London: Moxon, 1853) / more
  2. Number XIII, from Numbers IX, X, XI, XII, XIII of Addenda and corrigenda to the edition of the Hippolytus Stephanephoros of Euripides, by the honourable Francis Henry Egerton (1796) / more
  3. Gynecocracy; with An Essay on Fornication, Adultery, and Incest : By the author of “Rumours of Treason,” A Work suppressed in 1810.
    “Good News, good News, the Ladies have prevail’d.” (London, 1821) / more
  4. Cross Purposes ; Or, The Way of the World. A Novel. By Margaret Casson. (London: Ward & Lock, 1855) / more
  5. OCR cross-column misconstrual, at “Novels with a Purpose” —
    concerning Meredith, his The Ordeal of Richard Feverel and Emilia in England, Mrs. Norton her Lost and Saved, and (no author named) Recommended to Mercy
    in The Westminster Review 82:161 (July 1864) / more
  6. ex landing snippet leading to responses “To correspondents” at The Literary Pioneer (“or, Family Journal of Amusement and Utility”), 3:138 (London; Saturday, December 2, 1848) / more
  7. OCR cross-column misconstrual, at an intereresting location within “On the Study of Words,” by Richard Chenevix French D.D., Archbishop of Dublin, Part 1 of two, in The World’s Cyclopedia of Science Vol. 1 (1883) / more
     

long stalled, on this.
its wanting active voice propulsion... kinetics.
 

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