Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... king . She whom I conjectured to be their queen , advancing before the others , knelt down beside the body , and placing her hand upon its bosom , exclaimed in a bird- like voice , but infinitely " more tuncable than lark to shepherd's ...
... king . She whom I conjectured to be their queen , advancing before the others , knelt down beside the body , and placing her hand upon its bosom , exclaimed in a bird- like voice , but infinitely " more tuncable than lark to shepherd's ...
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... King Pepin , Was caught by the police , who found him With file and scissars in his hand , And ounces of Pactolian sand Lying around him . The case admitting no denial , They hurried him forthwith THE CULPRIT AND THE JUDGE . 43 The ...
... King Pepin , Was caught by the police , who found him With file and scissars in his hand , And ounces of Pactolian sand Lying around him . The case admitting no denial , They hurried him forthwith THE CULPRIT AND THE JUDGE . 43 The ...
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... king's image ; you , oh , fearful odds ! Strike the whole head at once from God's ! " MY TEA - KETTLE . " O madness to think use of strongest wines , And strongest drinks , our chief support of health . ” MILTON . A CERTAIN popular ...
... king's image ; you , oh , fearful odds ! Strike the whole head at once from God's ! " MY TEA - KETTLE . " O madness to think use of strongest wines , And strongest drinks , our chief support of health . ” MILTON . A CERTAIN popular ...
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... King - tang shoo kin Cong - foo - tse ; Chong - choo lee - kee kou - chon whang , To - hi tche - kiang She - whang - te . " The artful allusion to Confucius in the second line , and the happy introduction of the subject beverage in the ...
... King - tang shoo kin Cong - foo - tse ; Chong - choo lee - kee kou - chon whang , To - hi tche - kiang She - whang - te . " The artful allusion to Confucius in the second line , and the happy introduction of the subject beverage in the ...
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... king , When to the sky , with music ringing , Shouts of " Io Bacche ! " flinging , Each Satyr , nymph , and piping - boy , Danced around him mad with joy , Until on Ariadne's breast His flushing cheek he wildly press'd , The mingled ...
... king , When to the sky , with music ringing , Shouts of " Io Bacche ! " flinging , Each Satyr , nymph , and piping - boy , Danced around him mad with joy , Until on Ariadne's breast His flushing cheek he wildly press'd , The mingled ...
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