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... look round the horizon for an excuse , and charge our discon- tent upon an easterly wind or a cloudy day . Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason than to resign its powers to the influence of the air , and ...
... look round the horizon for an excuse , and charge our discon- tent upon an easterly wind or a cloudy day . Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason than to resign its powers to the influence of the air , and ...
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... look- ing grave , it desisted - the best dancer , I was saying , in the county , till a cruel disease , called a cancer , came , and bowed her down with pain ; but it could never bend her good spirits , or make them stoop , but they ...
... look- ing grave , it desisted - the best dancer , I was saying , in the county , till a cruel disease , called a cancer , came , and bowed her down with pain ; but it could never bend her good spirits , or make them stoop , but they ...
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... look grudgingly upon us but we had cheerful looks still for one another , and would eat our plain food savourily , scarcely grudging Piscator his Trout Hall ? Now , when we go out a day's pleasuring , which is seldom moreover , we ride ...
... look grudgingly upon us but we had cheerful looks still for one another , and would eat our plain food savourily , scarcely grudging Piscator his Trout Hall ? Now , when we go out a day's pleasuring , which is seldom moreover , we ride ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 5 |
OLIVER GOLDSMITH | 11 |
An Evening at Vauxhall | 27 |
Copyright | |
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