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... live at the top of the house ; we shall see the ships sailing , and the whole country for twenty miles round , tip - top , quite high . My Lord Swamp would give ten thousand guineas for such a one ; but , as I sometimes pleasantly tell ...
... live at the top of the house ; we shall see the ships sailing , and the whole country for twenty miles round , tip - top , quite high . My Lord Swamp would give ten thousand guineas for such a one ; but , as I sometimes pleasantly tell ...
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... live in dependence on the weather and the wind , for the only blessings which nature has put into our power ... lives by the barometer , with inconvenience only to themselves ; but to fill the world with accounts of intellects subject to ...
... live in dependence on the weather and the wind , for the only blessings which nature has put into our power ... lives by the barometer , with inconvenience only to themselves ; but to fill the world with accounts of intellects subject to ...
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... live , and at whose death the survivors can only say that they have ceased to breathe . But idleness predominates in many lives where it is not suspected : for , being a vice which terminates in itself , it may be enjoyed without injury ...
... live , and at whose death the survivors can only say that they have ceased to breathe . But idleness predominates in many lives where it is not suspected : for , being a vice which terminates in itself , it may be enjoyed without injury ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 5 |
OLIVER GOLDSMITH | 11 |
An Evening at Vauxhall | 27 |
Copyright | |
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