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... watch ( whether of French or English manufacture ) that comes to me like a footpad with its face muffled , and does not present its clear , open aspect like a friend , and point with its finger to the time of day . All this opening and ...
... watch ( whether of French or English manufacture ) that comes to me like a footpad with its face muffled , and does not present its clear , open aspect like a friend , and point with its finger to the time of day . All this opening and ...
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... watches sounded in stage - coaches at night , when some fellow- traveller suddenly awaking and wondering what was the hour , another has very deliberately taken out his watch , and pressing the spring , it has counted out the time ...
... watches sounded in stage - coaches at night , when some fellow- traveller suddenly awaking and wondering what was the hour , another has very deliberately taken out his watch , and pressing the spring , it has counted out the time ...
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... watch . Robinson Crusoe lost his reckoning in the monotony of his life and that bewildering dream of solitude , and was fain to have recourse to the notches in a piece of wood . What a diary was his ! And how time must have spread its ...
... watch . Robinson Crusoe lost his reckoning in the monotony of his life and that bewildering dream of solitude , and was fain to have recourse to the notches in a piece of wood . What a diary was his ! And how time must have spread its ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 5 |
OLIVER GOLDSMITH | 11 |
An Evening at Vauxhall | 27 |
Copyright | |
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